Publisher's Synopsis
A least-squares method based on the first-order velocity-pressure-vorticity formulation for the Stokes problem is proposed. This method leads to a minimization problem rather than to a saddle-point problem. The choice of the combinations of elements is thus not subject to the Ladyzhenskaya-Babuska-Brezzi (LBB) condition. Numerical results are given for the optimal rate of convergence for equal-order interpolations. Jiang, Bo-Nan and Chang, C. L. Glenn Research Center NASA-TM-101308, E-4298, ICOMP-88-16, NAS 1.15:101308 NASA ORDER C-99066-G; RTOP 505-62-21...
