TY - JOUR T1 - Superconvergence of Tetrahedral Linear Finite Elements AU - Chen , Long JO - International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling VL - 3 SP - 273 EP - 282 PY - 2006 DA - 2006/03 SN - 3 DO - http://doi.org/ UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/ijnam/900.html KW - superconvergence, finite element methods, tetrahedral elements, post-processing. AB -

In this paper, we show that the piecewise linear finite element solution $u_h$ and the linear interpolation $u_I$ have superclose gradient for tetrahedral meshes, where most elements are obtained by dividing approximate parallelepiped into six tetrahedra. We then analyze a post-processing gradient recovery scheme, showing that the global $L^2$ projection of $\nabla u_h$ is a superconvergent gradient approximation to $\nabla u$.