Title:         Stokes Complexes and the Construction of Stable Finite Elements
               with Pointwise Mass Conservation

Authors:       Richard S. Falk and Michael Neilan

Source:        SIAM J. NUMER. ANAL., Vol. 51 (2013), No. 2, pp. 1308-1326

Status:        Published

Abstract: Two families of conforming finite elements for the two-dimensional
          Stokes problem are developed, guided by two discrete smoothed de
          Rham complexes, which we coin ``Stokes complexes.''  We show that
          the finite element pairs are inf-sup stable and also provide 
          pointwise mass conservation on very general triangular meshes.