The Lagrange multiplier and the stationary Stokes equations

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 $\mathrm{div}u=0$.

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