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On the stabilization of finite element approximations of the Stokes equations. (English) Zbl 0552.76002

Efficient solutions of elliptic systems, Proc. GAMM-Semin., Kiel 1984, Notes Numer. Fluid Mech. 10, 11-19 (1984).
[For the entire collection see Zbl 0543.00006.]
Considered are finite element approximations of the Stokes equations. We present a systematic way of stabilizing it by adding bubble functions to the discrete velocity field. Another way of stabilization is also presented where the finite element spaces are kept unchanged but the discrete incompressibility condition is modified instead.

MSC:

76M99 Basic methods in fluid mechanics
65N30 Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs

Citations:

Zbl 0543.00006