Two-grid methods for characteristic finite volume element solution of semilinear convection-diffusion equations (Q606700)

The numerical approximation of the solutions of convection-diffusion problems in which the convection dominates the diffusion is considered. The authors present and derive error estimates for the two-grid finite volume element (FVE) method and the two-grid characteristic FVE method for a semilinear convection-diffusion equation. For the two-grid characteristic FVE method they observe that the iteration on a very coarse grid of size \(H\) may lead to good approximations by taking one iteration on the fine grid of size \(h\) [cf. \textit{J. Xu}, SIAM J. Sci. Comput. Math. 15, No.~1, 231--237 (1994; Zbl 0795.65077)]. It is proved that the coarse grid can be much coarser than the fine grid \((h \leq H)\).