Discrete Vector Potential Representation of a Divergence-Free Vector Field in Three-Dimensional Domains: Numerical Analysis of a Model Problem

DOI10.1137/0727065zbMath0717.65086OpenAlexW2161722781MaRDI QIDQ5748847

Publication date: 1990

Published in: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/be01a19776afc7781efc8d0200de60f0f0140d0c

zbMATH Keywords

mixed finite elements divergence-free vector field numerical experiment curved boundaries curved finite elements Optimal error estimates discrete gauge condition optimal interpolation errors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Error bounds for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N15) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M10)

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