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Generalized Elements

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Element: geometrical/physical primitive

Type:

Physical component

0: Node, 1: Edge, 2: Face, 3: Cell,

4: Hyper-cell (space-time element)

Dimension:

3: Triangle, 4: Quad, ... N: Polygon

4: Tetrahedron, ... N: Polyhedron

Rank:

Discretization, interpolation (FEM)

Order:

Neighbors, parents, children,

super/sub-elements, boundaries

Connections: