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Darcy Problem: Discretisations and Coercivity

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This lecture covers the Darcy problem, focusing on discretisations and the concept of coercivity, explaining the well-posedness of the formulation and the regularity conditions. It discusses the inf-sup condition, the coercivity of the formulation, and the properties of the kernel.

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