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ESAIM: M2AN
Volume 40, Number 1, January-February 2006
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Page(s) | 123 - 147 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/m2an:2006001 | |
Published online | 23 February 2006 |
New mixed finite volume methods for second order eliptic problems
Department of Aerospace Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,
Daejeon, 305-701 South Korea. toheart@acoustic.kaist.ac.kr
Received:
19
August
2004
Revised:
5
August
2005
In this paper we introduce and analyze new mixed finite volume methods for second order elliptic problems which are based on H(div)-conforming approximations for the vector variable and discontinuous approximations for the scalar variable. The discretization is fulfilled by combining the ideas of the traditional finite volume box method and the local discontinuous Galerkin method. We propose two different types of methods, called Methods I and II, and show that they have distinct advantages over the mixed methods used previously. In particular, a clever elimination of the vector variable leads to a primal formulation for the scalar variable which closely resembles discontinuous finite element methods. We establish error estimates for these methods that are optimal for the scalar variable in both methods and for the vector variable in Method II.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 65F10 / 65N15 / 65N30
Key words: Mixed method / finite volume method / discontinuous finite element method / conservative method.
© EDP Sciences, SMAI, 2006
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