Analysis of material interface dicontinuities and superconvergent fluxes in finite difference theory (Q1095753)

An analysis of material interface discontinuities is developed and applied in finite difference theory to determine mathematically rigorous averaging techniques for material properties. This result is compared with other averaging techniques, particularly harmonic averaging, which is often applied in practice. We also develop a class of formulas of high accuracy for post-processing the difference formula to compute derivatives (fluxes, stresses), and conduct supporting numerical studies.