Finite volume methods for convection-diffusion problems

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 31-55

  Lazarov, R D ^a   Mishev, Ilya D ^a   Vassilevski, P S ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell centered grid; Convection diffusion problem; Error estimates; Non self adjoint elliptic problems; Upwind and modified upwind approximations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002013366     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/0733003     Document Type: Article

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