Supraconvergent cell-centered scheme for two dimensional elliptic problems (Q960289)

The author considers a two-dimensional elliptic equation with variable coefficients subject to Dirichlet boundary value conditions in a domain, consisting of a union of rectangles. A cell-centered finite difference scheme on nonuniform meshes is studied. By means of appropriate negative norms, a supraconvergence and second-order error estimates in a discrete \(L^{2}(\Omega )\)-norm are proved if the exact solution of the problem is in the Sobolev space \(H^{4}(\Omega )\). A numerical example is given.