“…While velocity and pressure are the primary unknowns in the classical mixed method for the Stokes and Navier–Stokes equations, the dual‐mixed method for Stokes and Navier–Stokes approximates the fluid stress ( S ), velocity ( u ), and velocity gradient ( G ) directly. Specifically, the following is the variational problem: given f ∈( L 2 (Ω)) d and g ∈( H 1/2 (Γ)) d , find satisfying where …”