SUMMARYIn this paper the position of the free surface of a swirling fluid held in by surface tension is calculated by the finite element method. A new locally mass-conserving quadratic velocity, linear pressure triangular element is used to overcome non-physical solutions produced by the well known Taylor-Hood element.
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