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JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS ELSEVIER Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 85 (1997) 19-35 Analysis of some mixed elements for the Stokes problem Xiao-liang Cheng a,b*, Weimin Han c, Hong-ci Huang d aDepartment of Mathematics, Hong Kong Baptist University,Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong bDepartment of Mathematics, Hangzhou University,Hangzhou, China CDepartment of Mathematics, Universityof Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA aDepartment of Mathematics, Hong Kong Baptist University,Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong Received 20 February 1996 Abstract In this paper we discuss some mixed finite element methods related to the reduced integration penalty method for solving the Stokes problem. We prove optimal order error estimates for bilinear-constant and biquadratic-bilinear velocity-pressure finite element solutions. The result for the biquadratic-bilinear element is new, while that for the bilinear-constant element improves the convergence analysis of Johnson and Pitk/iranta (1982). In the degenerate case when the penalty parameter is set to be zero, our results reduce to some related known results proved in by Brezzi and Fortin (1991) for the bilinear- constant element, and Bercovier and Pironneau (1979) for the biquadratic-bilinear element.