Monotone finite volume schemes for diffusion equations on unstructured triangular and shape-regular polygonal meshes (Q2462467)

The authors provide a non-linear finite volume scheme in order to integrate numerically the stationary diffusion equation. Compared with linear schemes, this scheme satisfies the following practical requirements: it is locally conservative, it is monotone, i.e., preserves the positivity of the differential solution, it is reliable on unstructured anisotropic meshes that could be severely distorted, it allows heterogeneous full diffusion tensors, it generates a sparse system with minimal number of non-zero entries, and eventually, it has ``higher than the first order of accuracy for smooth solutions''. All these properties are underlined by some numerical experiments.