A cell functional minimization scheme for parabolic problem (Q613405)

The authors are interested in a robust and accurate finite volume scheme for 2-D parabolic problems derived from the cell functional minimization approach. The scheme has a local stencil, is locally conservative, treats discontinuity rigorously and leads to a symmetric positive definite linear system. Since the scheme has both cell centered unknowns and cell edge unknowns, the computational cost is an issue and a parallel algorithm is then suggested based on nonoverlapping domain decomposition approach. The interface condition is of the Dirichlet-Robin type and has a parameter \(\lambda \). Numerical results for linear and nonlinear problems are shown and demonstrate a good performance of the scheme on distorted meshes.