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Barycentric dual grids
↓ Cite this page ↓Some elements are defined on a barycentric dual grid. This grid is defined by taking a mesh of triangles:
Lines are then added connecting every vertex of each triangle to the midpoint of the opposite edge:
The cells in the dual grid are then defined as the union of all the triangles adjacent to one of the vertices in the original mesh:
In DefElement, regular polygons centred at the origin are used as reference elements of the dual grid.