Local interpolation by a quadratic Lagrange finite element in 1D

Josef Dalik


Address.
Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of Mathematics, Zizkova 17, 662 37 Brno, Czech Republic

E-mail. dalik.j@fce.vutbr.cz

Abstract.
We analyse the error of interpolation of functions from the space $H^3(a,c)$ in the nodes $a<b<c$ of a

regular quadratic Lagrange finite element in 1D by interpolants from the local function space of this finite element. We show that

the order of the error depends on the way in which the mutual positions of nodes $a,b,c$ change as the length of interval $[a,c]$ approaches zero.

 

AMSclassification. 65D05, 65L60.

Keywords. Quadratic Lagrange finite elements in 1D, local interpolation of functions in one variable.