An exponential fitting scheme for general convection-diffusion equations on tetrahedral meshes

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Raytcho D. Lazarov, Ludmil T. Zikatanov

Publication date: 5 November 2012

Abstract: This paper contains construction and analysis a finite element approximation for convection dominated diffusion problems with full coefficient matrix on general simplicial partitions in $R^d$, $d=2,3$. This construction is quite close to the scheme of Xu and Zikatanov (Math. Comp. 1999) where a diagonal coefficient matrix has been considered. The scheme is of the class of exponentially fitted methods that does not use upwind or checking the flow direction. It is stable for sufficiently small discretization step-size assuming that the boundary value problem for the convection-diffusion equation is uniquely solvable. Further, it is shown that, under certain conditions on the mesh the scheme is monotone. Convergence of first order is derived under minimal smoothness of the solution.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Error bounds for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N15) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30)

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