Design of an Optimal Grid for Finite Element Methods
- 1 January 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Structural Mechanics
- Vol. 11 (2) , 215-230
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03601218308907442
Abstract
Finite element solutions of improved quality are obtained by optimizing the location of nodes of the finite element grid, while keeping the number of degrees of freedom fixed. The formulation of the grid optimization problem is based on the reduction of error associated with interpolation of the exact solution, using functions from the finite element space. Element sizes are selected as design variables: length in R1 and area in R2. Analytically derived optimality conditions are presented and an approximation to these conditions is introduced to obtain a set of operationally useful equations that can be used as guidelines for construction of improved grids. Example problems are given for illustration.Keywords
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