On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, M. Adil Sbai wrote:

> Just would like to know if LibMesh does have built-in support for spectral
> finite elements ?

Yes and no.  The hierarchic FE type (on at least some geometric
element types) can in theory be p-refined (or adaptively p-refined) to
an arbitrary p... but with the current implementation, you're not
going to get very far (less than p=10 in 3D, IIRC) before your
solutions are swamped by floating point error (either from the shape
function evaluations or the system ill-conditioning, I can't say
which).

Your suggestions for improvement would be appreciated; I couldn't say
how much work would be required without some better idea of what the
work would entail.  Implementing more FPU-stable shape evaluation
functions might be easy (albeit tedious).
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Roy

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