Title:         Nonconforming finite elements for the Stokes problem

Authors:       Michel Crouzeix and Richard S. Falk

Source:        Math. Comp., vo 52 (1989)m, No. 186, pp. 437-456

Status:        Published

Abstract:      A new stability result is obtained for the approximation of the
               stationary Stokes problem by nonconforming piecewise cubic
               approximations to the velocities and a discontinuous piecewise
               quadratic approximation to the pressure.  The basic result is
               that for most reasonable meshes, these elements form a stable
               pair without the addition of quartic bubble functions (which
               had previously been added to insure stability).

Key words:     Stokes, finite element, nonconforming

AMS(MOS) subject classifications. 65N30