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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2011, Article ID 873152, 13 pages doi:10.1155/2011/873152 Research Article Conforming Finite Element Approximations for a Fourth-Order Steklov Eigenvalue Problem Hai Bi, Shixian Ren, and Yidu Yang School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Guizhou Normal University, GuiYang 550001, China Correspondence should be addressed to Yidu Yang, ydyang@ Received 30 May 2011; Revised 5 August 2011; Accepted 13 September 2011 Academic Editor: Bin Liu Copyright q 2011 Hai Bi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This paper characterizes the spectrum of a fourth-order Steklov eigenvalue problem by using the spectral theory of completely continuous operator. The conforming finite element approximation for this problem is analyzed, and the error estimate is given. Finally, the bounds for Steklov eigenvalues on the square domain are provided by Bogner-Fox-Schmit element and Morley element. 1. Introduction Steklov eigenvalue problems, in which the eigenvalue parameter appears in the boundary condition, have several deep applications both in maths and physics. For instance, they are found in the study of surface waves see 1, the analysis of stability of mechanical oscillators immersed in a viscous fluid see 2, and the study of the vibration modes of a structure in contact with an incompressible fluid see, e.g., 3, and the first eigenvalue also plays a crucial role in the positivity preserving property for the biharmonic operator Δ2 under the boundary conditions u Δu − λuν 0 on ∂Ω see 4 and so forth. Thus, numerical methods fo