Anisotropic interpolation and quasi-Wilson element for narrow quadrilateral meshes

In this paper an anisotropic interpolation theorem is presentedthat can be easily used to check the anisotropy of an element.A kind of quasi-Wilson element is considered for second-orderproblems on narrow quadrilateral meshes for which the usualregularity condition _K/h_K c₀ > 0 is not satisfied, whereh_K is the diameter of the element K and _K is the radius of thelargest inscribed circle in K. Anisotropic error estimates ofthe interpolation error and the consistency error in the energynorm and the L²-norm are given. Furthermore, we give a Poincaréinequality on a trapezoid which improves a result of eniek.