Stabilization of low-order mixed finite elements for the stokes equations

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 82-101

  Bochev, Pavel B ^a   Dohrmann, Clark R ^a   Gunzburger, Max D ^b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Equal order interpolation; Inf sup condition; Stabilized mixed methods; Stokes equations

Indexed keywords

EQUAL ORDER INTERPOLATION; STABILIZED MIXED METHODS; STOKES EQUATIONS;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DATA STRUCTURES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 33751528291     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036142905444482     Document Type: Article

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