Curl-Conforming Hierarchical Vector Bases for Triangles and Tetrahedra

A new family of hierarchical vector bases is proposed for triangles and tetrahedra. These functions span the curl-conforming reduced-gradient spaces of Nédélec. The bases are constructed from orthogonal scalar polynomials to enhance their linear independence, which is a simpler process than an orthogonalization applied to the final vector functions. Specific functions are tabulated to order 6.5. Preliminary results confirm that the new bases produce reasonably well-conditioned matrices.

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