This paper is concerned with curved boundary triangular elements having one curved side and two straight sides. The curved elements considered here are the 6-node (quadratic), 10-node (cubic), 15-node (quartic) and 21-node (quintic) triangular elements. On using the isoparametric coordinate transformation, these curved triangles in the global (x, y) coordinate system are mapped into a standard triangle: {( , )/0 , 1, + 1} in the local coordinate system ( , ). Under this transformation curved boundary of these triangular elements is implicitly replaced by quadratic, cubic, quartic and quintic arcs. The equations of these arcs involve parameters, which are the coordinates of points on the curved side. This paper deduces relations for choosing the parameters in quartic and quintic arcs in such a way that each arc is always a parabola which passes through four points of the original curve, thus ensuring a good approximation. The point transformations which are thus determined with the above choice of parameters on the curved boundary and also in turn the other parameters in the interior of curved triangles will serve as a powerful subparametric coordinate transformation for higher order curved triangular elements with one curved side and two straight sides.
This paper presents the finite element method using parabolic arcs for solving elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) over regular and irregular geometry, which has many applications in science and engineering. Some numerical examples are given to demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed method. The results obtained are in excellent agreement with the exact values.
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