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Motivation and Basic Ideas

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Part of the book series: Mathématiques et Applications ((MATHAPPLIC,volume 82))

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After a brief review of a variety of discretisation methods for linear and non-linear elliptic problems, the basic ideas and motivations of GDM are presented.

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Droniou, J., Eymard, R., Gallouët, T., Guichard, C., Herbin, R. (2018). Motivation and Basic Ideas. In: The Gradient Discretisation Method. Mathématiques et Applications, vol 82. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-79042-8_1

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