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We analyze a residual error estimator for a finite volume discretization of a linear elliptic boundary value problem. The error estimator consists of the residual of the strong equation and the jumps across the inter-element boundaries of a primal triangulation. Some numerical experiments are presented.
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Afif, M., Bergam, A., Mghazli, Z. et al. A Posteriori Estimators for the Finite Volume Discretization of an Elliptic Problem. Numerical Algorithms 34, 127–136 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:NUMA.0000005400.45852.f3
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