Abstract
In this paper, we present a new linear cell-centered finite volume multipoint flux approximation (MPFA-QL) scheme for discretizing diffusion problems on general polygonal meshes. This scheme uses a quasi-local stencil, based upon the conormal decomposition, to approximate the control face flux when solving the steady state diffusion problem, being able to reproduce piecewise linear solutions exactly and it is very robust when dealing with heterogeneous and highly anisotropic media and severely distorted meshes. In our linear scheme, we first construct the one-sided fluxes on each control surface independently and then a unique flux expression is obtained by a convex combination of the one-sided fluxes. The unknown values at the vertices that define a control surface are interpolated by means of a linearity-preserving interpolation procedure, considering control volumes surrounding these vertices. To show the potential of the MPFA-QL scheme, we solve some benchmark using triangular and quadrilateral meshes and we compare our scheme with other numerical formulations found in literature.
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