Two-grid finite volume element method for linear and nonlinear elliptic problems (Q2465406)

First the finite volume element method (FVEM) is applied to solve the two-dimensional problem \[ -\nabla \cdot (\mathbf{a} \nabla u )+ \mathbf{b} \cdot \nabla u +cu=f \quad \text{in} \quad \Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^{2} \] \[ u=0 \qquad \text{on} \quad \partial \Omega. \] \(\Omega \) is a convex bounded convex polygonal domain and \textbf{a} symmetric and positive definite. The idea of the two-grid method is to reduce the non-selfadjoint and indefinite elliptic problem on a fine grid into a symmetric and positive definite elliptic problem on a fine grid by solving a non-selfadjoint and indefinite elliptic problem on a coarse grid. In the last section the authors consider the FVEM for the two-dimensional second-order nonlinear elliptic problem with homogeneous boundary condition for \[ -\nabla \cdot (A(u) \nabla u )=f. \]