On the finite volume element method |
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Authors: | Zhiqiang Cai |
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Institution: | (1) Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, 251 Mercer Street, 10012 New York, NY, USA |
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Abstract: | Summary The finite volume element method (FVE) is a discretization technique for partial differential equations. It uses a volume integral formulation of the problem with a finite partitioning set of volumes to discretize the equations, then restricts the admissible functions to a finite element space to discretize the solution. this paper develops discretization error estimates for general selfadjoint elliptic boundary value problems with FVE based on triangulations with linear finite element spaces and a general type of control volume. We establishO(h) estimates of the error in a discreteH
1 semi-norm. Under an additional assumption of local uniformity of the triangulation the estimate is improved toO(h
2). Results on the effects of numerical integration are also included.This research was sponsored in part by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under grant number AFOSR-86-0126 and the National Science Foundation under grant number DMS-8704169. This work was performed while the author was at the University of Colorado at Denver |
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Keywords: | AMS(MOS): 65N10 65N30 CR: G1 8 |
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