A novel monotone finite volume element scheme for diffusion equations (Q2151628)

The authors present a new monotone finite volume element scheme based on the two-point flux idea for the diffusion problem on triangular grids. To this end, a fictitious triangular element is introduced for each edge of any element, and the diffusive tensor and the solution are continuously extended to its fictitious element for each edge of this element. Subsequently, new nonlinear two-point flux formulation is obtained for some part of one control volume edge. The approximation of the diffusion term on this straight control volume edge is constructed by some weighted average with the gradient of some finite element functions, and the weighted coefficients are determined by the nonlinear two-point flux idea. The scheme is proved to be monotone under some conditions on the exact solution and the mesh. Some numerical results are presented to show the monotonicity of the new scheme and confirm its accuracy and stability.