Isogeometric analysis with C1 cubic Powell-Sabin splines
Abstract
In this paper, we consider C1 cubic Powell-Sabin splines for the numerical solution of boundary value problems on planar and spatial surface domains. We first review the construction and basic properties of polynomial and rational C1 cubic Powell-Sabin spline representations on unstructured triangulations. Then, we discuss how these flexible representations can be exploited to create geometry mappings suited for a precise description of (classes of) surface domains. This is illustrated with several examples. Finally, the obtained domain descriptions are utilized in the isogeometric analysis framework for solving various Poisson and biharmonic problems. It is demonstrated that C1 cubic Powell-Sabin splines form a powerful alternative to C0 cubic Lagrange elements and bicubic NURBS.
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