An Arbitrary-Order Distributional Finite Element Method for the Curl--Dev Grad Stokes System

DOI10.48550/ARXIV.2611.11158MaRDI QIDQ7424527arXivFDO

Authors Xuehai Huang, Ziwen Gu

Publication date 8 November 2026

Published in arXiv

Tldr We develop an arbitrary-order distributional finite element method for the curl--dev grad Stokes system in three dimensions governed by the Hessian complex. We introduce degree-$(k+1)$ nonconforming symmetric-tensor virtual elements, degree-$k$ tangential-normal continuous traceless tensor elements, and Raviart--Thomas elements of index $k$, and derive a well-posed distributional saddle-point formulation with an $H(\operatorname{div})$ vector multiplier.

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2611.11158

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