Week 9 - FVM Literature Review

Finite Volume Method(FVM):

• The Finite volume method(FVM) is a method for representing and evaluating partial differential equations in form of algebraic equations.
• In this method, volume integrates into a partial differential equation that contains a divergence term and is converted into surface integrals, using the divergence theorem. These terms are then evaluated as fluxes at the surfaces of each finite volume. Because the flux entering a given volume is identical to that leaving the adjacent volume, these methods are conservative.
• 'Finite volume' refers to the small volume surrounding each node point on a mesh.
• The advantage of the finite volume method is that it is easily formulated to allow unstructured meshes and this method is used in many computational fluid dynamic packages.

The other qunestion are answered in the pdf.