Some Error Estimates for the Finite Volume Element Method for a Parabolic Problem

DOI10.1515/cmam-2012-0006zbMath1285.65059arXiv1208.3219MaRDI QIDQ5402663

Vidar Thomée, Raytcho D. Lazarov, Panagiotis Chatzipantelidis

Publication date: 17 March 2014

Published in: Computational Methods in Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.3219

zbMATH Keywords

convergence; heat equation; error estimates; semidiscretization; finite volume element method; lumped mass method; non-smooth initial data

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

65M60: Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs

65M15: Error bounds for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs

34K05: General theory of functional-differential equations

65M20: Method of lines for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs

65M08: Finite volume methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs