Finite elements

Collaboration diagram for Finite elements:

Topics
	Base classes
	Finite element access/FEValues classes
	Finite element space descriptions
	Mappings between reference and real cell
	How Mapping, FiniteElement, and FEValues work together
	The interplay of UpdateFlags, Mapping, and FiniteElement in FEValues
	Handling vector valued problems

Namespaces
namespace	FETools

Detailed Description

All classes related to shape functions and to access to shape functions. This concerns the actual values of finite elements. For the numbering of degrees of freedom refer to the topic on Degrees of Freedom.

The classes and functions of this topic fall into several sub-groups that are discussed in their respective sub-topics listed above. In addition, the FETools class provides functions that provide information on finite elements, transformations between elements, etc.

In the grand scheme of things, the pieces of this topic interact with a variety of other parts of the library: