A Pressure-Free Virtual Element Method for the Surface Stokes Problem

DOI10.48550/arXiv.2609.39996MaRDI QIDQ7361978zbMATH OpenarXivFDO

Authors Shengyang Xu, Hao Zhou, Jun Hu

Publication date 30 September 2026

Published in arXiv

Tldr We introduce a pressure-free virtual element method for surface Stokes problems on polygonal approximations of closed surfaces, which avoids penalties and uses a nonconforming Stokes complex with commuting interpolation and correct discrete cohomology to construct an exactly tangential velocity space with optimal convergence rates in both broken H^1 and L^2 norms.

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.39996

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability and convergence of numerical methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N12) Error bounds for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N15) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Stokes and related (Oseen, etc.) flows (76D07)

arXiv classification

math.NA

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