The inf-sup condition for the mapped Qk - Pk-1disc element in arbitrary space dimensions

  • Authors:

  • G. Matthies;L. Tobiska

  • Affiliations:

  • Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Institut für Analysis und Numerik, PF 4120, D-39016 Magdeburg, Germany;Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Institut für Analysis und Numerik, PF 4120, D-39016 Magdeburg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Computing
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

One of the most popular pairs of finite elements for solving mixed formulations of the Stokes and Navier-Stokes problem is the Qk - Pk-1disc element. Two possible versions of the discontinuous pressure space can be considered: one can either use an unmapped version of the Pk-1disc space consisting of piecewise polynomial functions of degree at most k - 1 on each cell or define a mapped version where the pressure space is defined as the image of a polynomial space on a reference cell. Since the reference transformation is in general not affine but multilinear, the two variants are not equal on arbitrary meshes. It is well-known, that the inf-sup condition is satisfied for the first variant. In the present paper we show that the latter approach satisfies the inf-sup condition as well for k ≥ 2 in any space dimension.