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The Lagrange multiplier and the stationary Stokes equations

  • Wojciech S. Ożański EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: November 22, 2017

Abstract

We briefly discuss the notion of the Lagrange multiplier for a linear constraint in the Hilbert space setting, and we prove that the pressure p appearing in the stationary Stokes equations is the Lagrange multiplier of the constraint divu=0.

Award Identifier / Grant number: EP/HO23364/1

Funding statement: The author is supported by EPSRC as part of the MASDOC DTC at the University of Warwick, Grant No. EP/HO23364/1.

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Received: 2017-10-12
Accepted: 2017-10-30
Published Online: 2017-11-22
Published in Print: 2017-12-1

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