A New Discontinuous Finite Volume Method for Elliptic Problems

We develop and analyze a new discontinuous finite volume method for second order elliptic problems with tensor coefficients. An optimal order error estimate is obtained in a mesh dependent norm. An L2 -error estimate is also obtained.

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