THREE-DIMENSIONAL FINITE ELEMENT METHODS FOR THE STOKES PROBLEM

The tetrahedral finite element approximation of the Stokes problem is analyzed by means of polynomials piecewise of degree k + 1 for the velocity and continuous piecewise of degree k for the pressure. A stability result is given for every k ≥ 1.

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