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Cubic Lagrange elements satisfying exact incompressibility

Numerical Analysis 2017-12-05 v1

Abstract

We prove that an analog of the Scott-Vogelius finite elements are inf-sup stable on certain nondegenerate meshes for piecewise cubic velocity fields. We also characterize the divergence of the velocity space on such meshes. In addition, we show how such a characterization relates to the dimension of C^1 piecewise quartics on the same mesh.

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@article{arxiv.1712.00672,
  title  = {Cubic Lagrange elements satisfying exact incompressibility},
  author = {Johnny Guzman and Ridgway Scott},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.00672},
  year   = {2017}
}

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32 pages

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