Martino Pani1, Fulvia Taddei1
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.94, No.4, pp. 279-300, 2013, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2013.094.279
Abstract The Cell Method (CM) is a numerical method to solve field equations starting from its direct algebraic formulation. For two-dimensional problems it has been demonstrated that using simplicial elements with an affine interpolation, the CM obtains the same fundamental equation of the Finite Element Method (FEM); using the quadratic interpolation functions, the fundamental equation differs depending on how the dual cell is defined. In spite of that, the CM can still provide the same convergence rate obtainable with the FEM. Particularly, adopting a uniform triangulation and basing the dual cells on the Gauss points of More >