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A CHARACTERISTIC-BASED FINITE VOLUME ELEMENT METHOD FOR CONVECTION-DIFFUSION-REACTION EQUATION

Sutthisak Phongthanapanich, Pramote Dechaumphai

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A two-dimensional convection-diffusion-reaction equation is discretized by the finite volume element method on triangular meshes. Time-dependent convection-diffusion-reaction equation is developed along the characteristic path using the characteristic-based scheme, while the finite volume method is employed for deriving the discretized equations. The concept of the finite element technique is applied to estimate the gradient quantities at the cell faces of the finite volume. Numerical test cases have shown that the method does not require any artificial diffusion to improve the solution stability. The robustness and the accuracy of the method have been evaluated by using available analytical and numerical solutions of the pure-convection, convection-diffusion and convection-diffusion-reaction problems.

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A two-dimensional convection-diffusion-reaction equation is discretized by the finite volume element method on triangular meshes. Time-dependent convection-diffusion-reaction equation is developed along the characteristic path using the characteristic-based scheme, while the finite volume method is employed for deriving the discretized equations. The concept of the finite element technique is applied to estimate the gradient quantities at the cell faces of the finite volume. Numerical test cases have shown that the method does not require any artificial diffusion to improve the solution stability. The robustness and the accuracy of the method have been evaluated by using available analytical and numerical solutions of the pure-convection, convection-diffusion and convection-diffusion-reaction problems.

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A two-dimensional convection-diffusion-reaction equation is discretized by the finite volume element method on triangular meshes. Time-dependent convection-diffusion-reaction equation is developed along the characteristic path using the characteristic-based scheme, while the finite volume method is employed for deriving the discretized equations. The concept of the finite element technique is applied to estimate the gradient quantities at the cell faces of the finite volume. Numerical test cases have shown that the method does not require any artificial diffusion to improve the solution stability. The robustness and the accuracy of the method have been evaluated by using available analytical and numerical solutions of the pure-convection, convection-diffusion and convection-diffusion-reaction problems.

Key concepts: Convection–diffusion equation, Finite volume method, Finite element method, Discretization, Numerical solution of the convection–diffusion equation, Convection, Control volume, Finite volume method for one-dimensional steady state diffusion

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