Abstract
The stability of velocity and pressure mixed finite-element approximations in general meshes of the hydrostatic Stokes problem is studied, where two “inf-sup” conditions appear associated to the two constraints of the problem; namely incompressibility and hydrostatic pressure. Since these two constraints have different properties, it is not easy to choose finite element spaces satisfying both. From the analytical point of view, two main results are established; the stability of an anisotropic approximation of the velocity (using different spaces for horizontal and vertical velocities) with piecewise constant pressures, and the unstability of standard (isotropic) approximations which are stable for the Stokes problem, like the mini-element or the Taylor-Hood element. Moreover, we give some numerical simulations, which agree with the previous analytical results and allow us to conjecture the stability of some anisotropic approximations of the velocity with continuous piecewise linear pressure in unstructured meshes.
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