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Jukka Aho
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Major architectural refactoring: replace old field-based element system
with modern DOF-based design following Ciarlet's finite element triple.
- Redesign Element from Element{N,NIP,F,B} to Element{K,P,S,N}
- Replace connectivity with dof_indices (flat tuple of global DOF indices)
- Remove all old field system (sfields, dfields, fields, update_field!, etc.)
- Remove old constructors and compatibility shims
- Add compile-time DOF computation via @generated ndofs(K, S)
- Add field_dof_range for compile-time local DOF range computation
- Add local_to_global_map for type-stable DOF mapping
- Add topology_type, basis_type, dof_type query functions
- Add element_id, element_dofs, n_element_dofs, nnodes accessors
- Remove 593 lines of legacy code (963 → 370 lines)
- Simplify API: elements now store DOF indices, not node connectivity
- Support multi-field elements via DOFSet specifications
- Zero-allocation design with compile-time type information