ON THE ACCURACY OF THE FINITE VOLUME ELEMENT METHOD FOR DIFFUSION-EQUATIONS ON COMPOSITE GRIDS

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作者
CAI, ZQ
MCCORMICK, S
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[1] Univ of Colorado, , CO
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10.1137/0727039
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O29 [应用数学];
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070104 ;
摘要
This paper develops the finite volume element (FVE) method, which is similar to the so-called control volume finite element method but tailored to composite grid applications. FVE is described for the general two-dimensional diffusion equation in divergence form; O(h3/2$/) discretization error estimates are then developed for the case of triangular elements. These results are improved to O(h2) using a special modification involving rectilinear elements at the grid interface.
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