We present a first-order system least-squares (FOSLS) method to approximate the solution to the equations of geometrically nonlinear elasticity in two dimensions. With assumptions of regularity on the ...

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Following our earlier work on general second-order scalar equations, here we develop a least-squares functional for the two- and three-dimensional Stokes equations, generalized slightly by allowing a ...