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When derivatives of a spectral element solution are used in a different context, such as visualization or in calculations with a different numerical method, the discontinuity of the derivatives at the element interfaces is a potential problem. Asymptotically, the jumps in the derivatives decay spectrally fast, but it is not always possible or efficient use of computational resources to repeat the spectral element calculations with increased resolution. The usual way of treating the discontinuities is discussed here, however it is not always satisfactory. New methods based on polynomial interpolation across element interfaces and polynomial filtering are suggested, and illustrated by examples.
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The author is grateful to Thomas Elboth, Thor Gjesdal, and Anders Helgeland for valuable input and discussions on this subject. The work is supported in part by Fugro and The Norwegian Research Council through grant PETROMAKS 175921/S30.
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Wasberg, C.E. (2011). Post-Processing of Marginally Resolved Spectral Element Data. In: Hesthaven, J., Rønquist, E. (eds) Spectral and High Order Methods for Partial Differential Equations. Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, vol 76. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15337-2_49
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