Nonconforming Finite Elements for the Stokes Problem

Abstract
A new stability result is obtained for the approximation of the stationary Stokes problem by nonconforming piecewise cubic approximations to the velocities and a discontinuous piecewise quadratic approximation to the pressure. The basic result is that for most reasonable meshes, these elements form a stable pair without the addition of quartic bubble functions (which had previously been added to insure stability).

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