Voronoi cell finite difference method for the diffusion operator on arbitrary unstructured grids

DOI10.1002/nme.664zbMath1042.65079OpenAlexW1988537420MaRDI QIDQ4446634

N. Sukumar

Publication date: 3 February 2004

Published in: International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/nme.664

zbMATH Keywords

consistencynumerical examplesdiscrete maximum principlePoisson equationcomputational geometryDelaunay triangulationsVoronoi cellslinear elliptic equationsgrid connectednessapproximations on unstructured gridsSibson and Laplace interpolantsVoronoi difference scheme

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Numerical aspects of computer graphics, image analysis, and computational geometry (65D18) Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) 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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