An efficient and accurate reconstruction algorithm for the formulation of cell-centered diffusion schemes

A new reconstruction algorithm is proposed for constructing cell-centered diffusion schemes on distorted meshes. Its main feature is that edge unknowns are defined at certain balance points, the locations of which depend on the diffusion coefficient and the skewness of grid cells, so as to obtain a two-point reconstruction stencil. Implementing the new algorithm for the approximation of gradients, we extend the IDC (improved deferred correction) scheme, which was proposed by Traoré et al. [P. Traoré, Y. Ahipo, C. Louste, A robust and efficient finite volume scheme for the discretization of diffusive flux on extremely skewed meshes in complex geometries, J. Comput. Phys. 228 (2009) 5148–5159], to handle diffusion problems with discontinuous coefficients. Numerical results demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of the extended scheme.