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The opinion that least-squares methods are not useful due to their poor mass conserving property should be revised. It will be shown that least-squares spectral element methods perform poorly with respect to mass conservation, but this is compensated with a superior momentum conservation. With these new insights, one can firmly state that the least-squares spectral element method remains an interesting alternative for the commonly used Galerkin spectral element formulation
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Proot, M.M.J., Gerritsma, M.I. Mass- and Momentum Conservation of the Least-Squares Spectral Element Method for the Stokes Problem. J Sci Comput 27, 389–401 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10915-005-9030-3
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