A new family of stable mixed finite elements for the 3D Stokes equations

Mathematics of Computation

Volumn 74, Issue 250, 2005, Pages 543-554

  Zhang, Shangyou ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite element; Inf sup condition; Mixed element; Multigrid method; Stokes problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 14944362609     PISSN: 00255718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0025-5718-04-01711-9     Document Type: Article

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