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<p>Hi,</p>
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<p>I am trying to understand how the code works, and therefore I opened the theory section at the Nek5000-homepage.</p>
<p>Here, you link to the book "High-Order Methods for Incompressible Fluid Flow" by Deville et al.</p>
<p>I started to read the book, but I am not sure how to relate what I read to Nek.</p>
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<p>In chapter 4, a class of 2D basis functions defined on a square is defined.</p>
<p>I think this is the kind of basis function that is used in Nek, am I right?</p>
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<p>I understand that these functions serves as a basis for one element of the domain.</p>
<p>But Nek solves PDE:s over several linked elements.</p>
<p>What is here the condition at the edge connecting two elements?</p>
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<p>Is it that the function (velocity component/pressure/scalar) should be continuous at the GLL-nodes at such an edge?</p>
<p>Also consinuously differentiable att these nodes? Differentiable to some higher order?</p>
<p>What about function values on the edge that are not at the GLL-node?</p>
<p>Are they discontinuous or differentiable to some certain order?</p>
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<p>Best,</p>
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<p>Johan<br>
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