Inf-sup stable nonconforming finite elements of arbitrary order on triangles (Q2581002)

The main objective of this paper is to propose a consistent family of nonconforming approximations of arbitrary order \(k\) and to prove the inf-sup stability of its vector-valued version with discontinuous piecewise \(P_{k-1}\) approximations. A general convergence result for nonconforming discretisations of the stationary Stokes problem is presented with a new family of scalar nonconforming finite elements of order \(k - 1\). Also the basic property of unisolvence of the set of degrees of freedom is shown. The theoretical convergence results are confirmed by numerical experiments.