Recovery-based error estimation and adaptivity using high-order splines over hierarchical T-meshes

An adaptive higher-order method based on a generalization of polynomial/rational splines over hierarchical T-meshes (PHT/RHT-splines) is introduced. While most problems considered in isogeometric analysis can be solved efficiently when the solution is smooth, many non-trivial simulations have rough solutions. This can be caused, for example, by the presence of re-entrant corners in the domain. For such problems, a tensor-product basis is less...