A Quadrilateral ‘Mini’ Finite Element for the Stokes Problem Using a Single Bubble Function

A Quadrilateral ‘Mini’ Finite Element for the Stokes Problem Using a Single Bubble Function

Year:    2017

International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling, Vol. 14 (2017), Iss. 6 : pp. 869–878

Abstract

We consider a quadrilateral ‘mini’ finite element for approximating the solution of Stokes equations using a quadrilateral mesh. We use the standard bilinear finite element space enriched with element-wise defined bubble functions for the velocity and the standard bilinear finite element space for the pressure space. With a simple modification of the standard bubble function we show that a single bubble function is sufficient to ensure the inf-sup condition. We have thus improved an earlier result on the quadrilateral ‘mini’ element, where more than one bubble function are used to get the stability.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/2017-IJNAM-10484

International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling, Vol. 14 (2017), Iss. 6 : pp. 869–878

Published online:    2017-01

AMS Subject Headings:    Global Science Press

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    10

Keywords:    Stokes equations mixed finite elements Mini finite element inf-sup condition bubble function.