Stokes Complexes and the Construction of Stable Finite Elements with Pointwise Mass Conservation
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Two families of conforming finite elements for the two-dimensional Stokes problem are developed, guided by two discrete smoothed de Rham complexes, which we coin “Stokes complexes.” We show that the finite element pairs are inf-sup stable and also provide pointwise mass conservation on very general triangular meshes.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- SIAM J. Numerical Analysis
دوره 51 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013