> A very basic question. I noticed that all the programs use lagrange shape > functions. Is there a good reason for this? Since legendre shape functions > have fewer degrees of freedom for the same order(p) , shouldn't this be a > more useful choice for shape functions especially for DG methods?
Um, maybe I just don't understand the question, but don't two polynomials of the same degree p have the same number of coefficients (unknowns)? Can you elaborate on your question? Best W. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wolfgang Bangerth email: [email protected] www: http://www.math.tamu.edu/~bangerth/ _______________________________________________ dealii mailing list http://poisson.dealii.org/mailman/listinfo/dealii
