THE DISCRETE DUALITY FINITE VOLUME METHOD FOR CONVECTION-DIFFUSION PROBLEMS

In this paper we extend the discrete duality finite volume (DDFV) formulation to the steady convection-diffusion equation. The discrete gradients defined in DDFV are used to define a cell-based gradient for the control volumes of both the primal and dual meshes, in order to achieve a higher-order accurate numerical flux for the convection term. A priori analysis is carried out to show convergence of the approximation, and a global first-order convergence rate is derived. The theoretical results are confirmed by some numerical experiments.