Supercloseness of the mixed finite element method for the primary function on unstructured meshes and its applications (Q486713)

The author considers a Dirichlet boundary value problem attached to a linear symmetric and uniformly positive definite second-order elliptic partial differential equation. He reviews the mixed finite element method, the div least-squares (LS) method and the standard Galerkin method, all applied to the above mentioned problem. Then, he proves the superconvergence of the approximate solutions for the primary unknown and shows that the LS solutions are high-order perturbations of the mixed and Galerkin approximations. On shape regular meshes he also provides error estimates for LS approximations.