In this paper, we present an heuristic finite difference scheme for the second-order linear operator, which is derived from an unconstrained least squares problem defined by the consistency condition on the residuals of order one, two and three in the Taylor expansion of the local truncation error. It is based on a non-iterative calculation of the difference coefficients and can be used to solve efficiently Poisson-like equations on non-rectangular domains which are approximated by structured convex grids.
The variational grid generation method is a powerful tool for generating structured convex grids on irregular simply connected domains whose boundary is a polygonal Jordan curve. Several examples that show the accuracy of a difference approximation to the solution of a Poisson equation using these kind of structured grids have been recently reported. In this paper, we compare the accuracy of the numerical solution calculated by applying those structured grids with finite differences against the the solution obtained with Delaunay-like triangulations on irregular regions.
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