Machine Design

What’s The Difference Between FEM, FDM and FVM?

What Are FEM, FDM and FVM? FEM, FDM and FVM differ from one another in important ways. Understanding these distinctions is key to selecting the method most appropriate for your purposes. The ...
JSTOR Daily

On the Accuracy of the Finite Volume Element Method Based on Piecewise Linear Polynomials

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Vol. 39, No. 6 (2002), pp. 1865-1888 (24 pages) We present a general error estimation framework for a finite volume element (FVE ...
Nature

Finite Volume Methods for Elliptic Equations

Finite volume methods (FVMs) represent a class of numerical techniques that are widely used in the discretisation of elliptic equations, ensuring local conservation of fluxes and often realising high ...