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A Structural Relationship Between Crouzeix-Raviart Immersed Finite Elements for Elliptic and Stokes Interface Problems

Jiaying Ren·Guozhu Yu·Xu Zhang
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In this paper, we study the structural relationship between immersed finite element (IFE) spaces for scalar elliptic and Stokes interface problems on unfitted meshes. Although IFE methods have been widely developed for individual partial differential equation models, the algebraic connection between scalar and vector IFE spaces has not been systematically explored. We establish a precise unisolvence relationship between the immersed Crouzeix-Raviart (CR) element for elliptic interface problems and the immersed CR-$P_0$ element for Stokes interface problems in both gradient and stress formulations. By analyzing the block structure of the local IFE matrices, we show that the determinant of the Stokes IFE matrix factorizes in terms of the determinant of the corresponding elliptic IFE matrix. This factorization reveals an intrinsic algebraic link between the two classes of immersed elements and explains the unisolvence of the Stokes IFE spaces through the scalar elliptic case. The same result extends naturally to three dimensions and significantly simplifies the corresponding analysis. Numerical experiments confirm optimal convergence rates for both velocity and pressure in three-dimensional Stokes interface problems.

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Jiaying Ren, Guozhu Yu, Xu Zhang. 2026-09-11. A Structural Relationship Between Crouzeix-Raviart Immersed Finite Elements for Elliptic and Stokes Interface Problems. https://doi.org/10.1002/num.70143

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