P. Kloucek et al., ANALYSIS OF A CLASS OF NONCONFORMING FINITE-ELEMENTS FOR CRYSTALLINE MICROSTRUCTURES, Mathematics of computation, 65(215), 1996, pp. 1111-1135
An analysis is given for a class of nonconforming Lagrange-type finite
elements which have been successfully utilized to approximate the sol
ution of a variational problem modeling the deformation of martensitic
crystals with microstructure. These elements were first proposed and
analyzed in 1992 by Rannacher and Turek for the Stokes equation. Our a
nalysis highlights the features of these elements which make them effe
ctive for the computation of microstructure. New results for superconv
ergence and numerical quadrature are also given.