Abstract.
We present a detailed survey of
discrete functional analysis tools (consistency results, Poincaré and Sobolev embedding inequalities, discrete W1,p compactness,
discrete compactness in space and in time) for the so-called
Discrete Duality Finite Volume (DDFV) schemes
in three space dimensions.
We concentrate mainly on the 3D CeVe-DDFV scheme presented
in [IMA J. Numer. Anal., 32 (2012), pp. 1574–1603].
Some of our results are new, such as a general time-compactness result based upon the idea
of Kruzhkov (1969); others generalize the ideas known for the 2D DDFV schemes or for traditional two-point-flux finite volume schemes.
We illustrate the use of these tools by studying convergence of discretizations of nonlinear elliptic-parabolic problems of Leray–Lions kind, and provide numerical results for this example.