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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences Volume 2012, Article ID 962070, 18 pages doi:10.1155/2012/962070 Research Article Discrete Mixed Petrov-Galerkin Finite Element Method for a Fourth-Order Two-Point Boundary Value Problem L. Jones Tarcius Doss1 and A. P. Nandini2 1 Department of Mathematics, Anna University Chennai, CEG Campus, Chennai 600 025, India 2 Department of Mathematics, M.N.M Jain Engineering College, Thoraipakkam, Chennai 600097, India Correspondence should be addressed to L. Jones Tarcius Doss, jones@ Received 20 July 2011; Revised 24 November 2011; Accepted 25 November 2011 Academic Editor: Attila Gilanyi ´ Copyright q 2012 L. J. T. Doss and A. P. Nandini. 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. A quadrature-based mixed Petrov-Galerkin finite element method is applied to a fourth-order linear ordinary differential equation. After employing a splitting technique, a cubic spline trial space and a piecewise linear test space are considered in the method. The integrals are then replaced by the Gauss quadrature rule in the formulation itself. Optimal order a priori error estimates are obtained without any restriction on the mesh. 1. Introduction In this paper, we develop a quadrature-based Petrov-Galerkin mixed finite element method for the following fourth-order boundary value problem: d2 d2 u a x b x u f x , x ∈ I 0, 1 , 1.1 dx2 dx2