Enhanced Cell-Centered Finite Differences for Elliptic Equations on General Geometry

DOI10.1137/S1064827594264545zbMath0947.65114MaRDI QIDQ4389249

Philip T. Keenan, Todd Arbogast, Mary Fanett Wheeler, Clint N. Dawson, Ivan Yotov

Publication date: 12 May 1998

Published in: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

convergenceerror estimatessecond-order elliptic problemssuperconvergenceunstructured meshmixed finite element methodhierarchical meshtensor coefficientcell-centered finite difference approximationlogically rectangular grid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Error bounds for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N15) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N12) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Mesh generation, refinement, and adaptive methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N50) Finite difference methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N06)

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