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An Upwind Finite Volume Element Method for Nonlinear Convection Diffusion Problem
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American Journal of Computational Mathematics·Volume 01 (2011)·Pages 264–270·Published 22 December 2011·DOI10.4236/ajcm.2011.14032
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Abstract
A class of upwind finite volume element method based on tetrahedron partition is put forward for a nonlinear convection diffusion problem. Some techniques, such as calculus of variations, commutating operators and the a priori estimate, are adopted. The a priori error estimate in L<sup>2</sup>-norm and H1-norm is derived to determine the error between the approximate solution and the true solution.
KeywordsNonlinearConvection-DiffusionTetrahedron PartitionError Estimates
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