“…Numerical (finite difference, FDM, finite volume, FVM, and finite element methods, FEM) and analytical methods have been used for discretizing and, thus, solving convective-diffusive partial differential equations. The literature related to the FEM (Zienkiewicz & Taylor, 1989, 1991Fortes, 1997;Fang et al, 1997;Carey et al, 1998;Fortes & Ferreira, 1999;Baker et al, 1999), FVM (Patankar, 1980;Versteeg & Malalasekera, 1995;Moukalled & Darwish, 1997) and FDM (Patel et al, 1985;Hirsch, 1988;Hoffman, 1992;Balzano, 1999;Sengupta & Nair, 1999) used to solve convection-diffusion problems is abundant, and no intent is made here to cover the latest developments.…”