A finite volume scheme for an elliptic equation with heterogeneous coefficients. Application to a homogenization problem (Q5946868)

The authors develop a finite volume scheme to solve numerically an elliptic equation with heterogeneous coefficients. The construction of this scheme stems from a primal-dual mixed variational formulation with the solution decomposed into a regular part whose approximation belongs to a standard finite element space and an irregular part that is approximated by bubble functions. The irregular part is eliminated in terms of the regular part by imposing the continuity of the numerical flux across the lines of discontinuities of the coefficient. A five points scheme is constructed and some numerical results are given.