Construction of triangular finite element universal matrices

The various ‘universal’ matrices from which finite element matrices for triangular elements are assembled in many electromagnetics and acoustics problems, can all be derived from a basic set of three fundamental matrices. These represent, respectively, the metric of the linear manifold spanned by the triangle interpolation polynominals, the finite differentiation operator on that same manifold, and a product‐embedding operator for the corresponding manifold for interpolation polynomials one order higher. Two of these have already been tabulated and published; the required method for computing the third is given in this paper, along with tables of low‐order matrices.