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Some new families of finite elements for the stokes equations

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We introduce a way of using the mixed finite element families of Raviart, Thomas and Nedelec [13, 14], and Brezzi et al. [5–7], for constructing stable and optimally convergent discretizations for the Stokes problem.

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Stenberg, R. Some new families of finite elements for the stokes equations. Numer. Math. 56, 827–838 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01405291

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