Abstract

In this paper, we employ the so-called linearity preserving method, which requires that a difference scheme should be exact on linear solutions, to derive a nine-point difference scheme for the numerical solution of diffusion equation on the structured quadrilateral meshes. This scheme uses firstly both cell-centered unknowns and vertex unknowns, and then the vertex unknowns are treated as a linear combination of the surrounding cell-centered unknowns, which reduces the scheme to a cell-centered one. The weights in the linear combination are derived through the linearity preserving approach and can be obtained by solving a local linear system whose solvability is rigorously discussed. Moreover, the relations between our linearity preserving scheme and some existing schemes are also discussed, by which a generalized multipoint flux approximation scheme based on the linearity preserving criterion is suggested. Numerical experiments show that the linearity preserving schemes in this paper have nearly second order accuracy on many highly skewed and highly distorted structured quadrilateral meshes.

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