A pressure-Poisson stabilized finite element method for the non-stationary Stokes equations to circumvent the inf-sup condition (Q861068)

The authors consider stabilized finite element methods for non-stationary Stokes equations based on some lowest equal-order finite elements space pair \((X_{h},M_{h}) \), which do not satisfy the discrete inf-sup condition. The stability of two kinds of methods is derived under some regularity assumptions. Then, the convergence of the penalty method and the pressure-Poisson stabilized method is compared. The result shows that the former error limits the order of approximation to \(O(\epsilon + h/ \sqrt{\epsilon}) \) , and the latter yields the optimal error estimate \(O(h) \).