Extraction and application of super-smooth cubic B-splines over triangulations

05/03/2023
by   Jan Grošelj, et al.
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The space of C^1 cubic Clough-Tocher splines is a classical finite element approximation space over triangulations for solving partial differential equations. However, for such a space there is no B-spline basis available, which is a preferred choice in computer aided geometric design and isogeometric analysis. A B-spline basis is a locally supported basis that forms a convex partition of unity. In this paper, we explore several alternative C^1 cubic spline spaces over triangulations equipped with a B-spline basis. They are defined over a Powell-Sabin refined triangulation and present different types of C^2 super-smoothness. The super-smooth B-splines are obtained through an extraction process, i.e., they are expressed in terms of less smooth basis functions. These alternative spline spaces maintain the same optimal approximation power as Clough-Tocher splines. This is illustrated with a selection of numerical examples in the context of least squares approximation and finite element approximation for second and fourth order boundary value problems.

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