Hi all,

I am encountered a weird thing (bug?) and I am having trouble to understand 
it. Maybe someone has an idea:

I am trying to solve a simple elliptic problem (imagine some sort of a 
simple Laplace problem for now) with pure Neumann BCs, say -\Delta u = f, 
n\grad u = g. Now theory tells me that the volume average over f must be 
the same as the boundary average over g. If I solve that problem (with 
deal.ii) in the standard form above the Neumann condition is natural and 
enters the right hand side. I solve and I see what I expect. Fine, 
intuition confirmed.

Now I am solving it in mixed form with RT0-DGQ0 elements which are stable. 
My Neumann BC becomes essential and enters as hard constraint into the 
system but the compatibility condition should be the same. When I solve 
that system now I see things that totally do not match what I see in the 
standard form and I do not have a clue why. 

I can see from tests that also the standard form is very sensitive to 
little mismatches in the compatibility condition so I was wondering if this 
issue becomes more of a problem in mixed form.

(Btw, if I regularize the problem slightly by changing the left hand side 
-\Delta u to -\Delta u + \epsilon u  and setting f to zero (compatibility 
is not necessary then) I see something that is close to what I would expect 
in the pure Laplace case.)

Best,
Konrad

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