简介:Wedeveloptheinterpolatedfiniteelementmethodtosolvesecond-orderhy-perbolicequations.Thestandardlinearfiniteelementsolutionisusedtogenerateanewsolutionbyquadraticinterpolationoveradjacentelements.Weprovethatthisinterpo-latedfiniteelementsolutionhassuperconvergence.Thismethodcaneasilybeappliedtogeneratingmoreaccurategradienteitherlocallyorglobally,dependingontheapplications.Thismethodisalsocompletelyvectorizableandparallelizabletotaketheadvantagesofmoderncomputerstructures.Severalnumericalexamplesarepresentedtoconfirmourtheoreticalanalysis.