The mimetic finite difference discretization of diffusion problem on unstructured polyhedral meshes

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 211, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 473-491

  Lipnikov, Konstantin ^a   Shashkov, Mikhail ^a   Svyatskiy, Daniil ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATE SOLUTION; CONVERGENCE RATES; DIFFUSION PROBLEMS; DIFFUSION TENSOR; FINITE-DIFFERENCE DISCRETIZATION; FIRST ORDER; HIGH-ACCURACY; MIMETICS; POLYHEDRAL MESHES; SECOND ORDER CONVERGENCE;

DIFFUSION;

EID: 26944473988     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2005.05.028     Document Type: Article

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