Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics a Posteriori Error Analysis of a Cell-centered Finite Volume Method for Semilinear Elliptic Problems

In this paper, we conduct a goal-oriented a posteriori analysis for the error in a quantity of interest computed from a cell-centered finite volume scheme for a semilinear elliptic problem. The a posteriori error analysis is based on variational analysis, residual errors and the adjoint problem. To carry out the analysis, we use an equivalence between the cell-centered finite volume scheme and a mixed finite element method with special choice of quadrature.

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