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Nonconforming finite element Stokes complexes in three dimensions
Two nonconforming finite element Stokes complexes ended with the
nonconforming - element for the Stokes equation in three dimensions
are constructed. And commutative diagrams are also shown by combining
nonconforming finite element Stokes complexes and interpolation operators. The
lower order -nonconforming finite
element only has degrees of freedom, whose basis functions are explicitly
given in terms of the barycentric coordinates. The -nonconforming elements are applied to solve the
quad-curl problem, and optimal convergence is derived. By the nonconforming
finite element Stokes complexes, the mixed finite element methods of the
quad-curl problem is decoupled into two mixed methods of the Maxwell equation
and the nonconforming - element method for the Stokes equation, based
on which a fast solver is developed.Comment: 20 page
The Lower Bounds for Eigenvalues of Elliptic Operators --By Nonconforming Finite Element Methods
The aim of the paper is to introduce a new systematic method that can produce
lower bounds for eigenvalues. The main idea is to use nonconforming finite
element methods. The general conclusion herein is that if local approximation
properties of nonconforming finite element spaces are better than global
continuity properties of , corresponding methods will produce lower bounds
for eigenvalues. More precisely, under three conditions on continuity and
approximation properties of nonconforming finite element spaces we first show
abstract error estimates of approximate eigenvalues and eigenfunctions.
Subsequently, we propose one more condition and prove that it is sufficient to
guarantee nonconforming finite element methods to produce lower bounds for
eigenvalues of symmetric elliptic operators. As one application, we show that
this condition hold for most nonconforming elements in literature. As another
important application, this condition provides a guidance to modify known
nonconforming elements in literature and to propose new nonconforming elements.
In fact, we enrich locally the Crouzeix-Raviart element such that the new
element satisfies the condition; we propose a new nonconforming element for
second order elliptic operators and prove that it will yield lower bounds for
eigenvalues. Finally, we prove the saturation condition for most nonconforming
elements.Comment: 24 page
Stable cheapest nonconforming finite elements for the Stokes equations
We introduce two pairs of stable cheapest nonconforming finite element space
pairs to approximate the Stokes equations. One pair has each component of its
velocity field to be approximated by the nonconforming quadrilateral
element while the pressure field is approximated by the piecewise constant
function with globally two-dimensional subspaces removed: one removed space is
due to the integral mean--zero property and the other space consists of global
checker--board patterns. The other pair consists of the velocity space as the
nonconforming quadrilateral element enriched by a globally
one--dimensional macro bubble function space based on
(Douglas-Santos-Sheen-Ye) nonconforming finite element space; the pressure
field is approximated by the piecewise constant function with mean--zero space
eliminated. We show that two element pairs satisfy the discrete inf-sup
condition uniformly. And we investigate the relationship between them. Several
numerical examples are shown to confirm the efficiency and reliability of the
proposed methods
Nonconforming finite element approximations of the Steklov eigenvalue problem and its lower bound approximations
summary:The paper deals with error estimates and lower bound approximations of the Steklov eigenvalue problems on convex or concave domains by nonconforming finite element methods. We consider four types of nonconforming finite elements: Crouzeix-Raviart, , and enriched Crouzeix-Raviart. We first derive error estimates for the nonconforming finite element approximations of the Steklov eigenvalue problem and then give the analysis of lower bound approximations. Some numerical results are presented to validate our theoretical results
P1-Nonconforming finite elements on triangulations into triangles and quadrilaterals
The P1-nonconforming finite element is introduced for arbitrary triangulations into quadrilaterals and triangles of multiple connected Lipschitz domains. An explicit a priori analysis for the combination of the Park–Sheen and the Crouzeix–Raviart nonconforming finite element methods is given for second-order elliptic PDEs with inhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions
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