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The COUPLEX1 Test case (Bourgeat et al., 2003) is devoted to the comparison of numerical schemes on a convection–diffusion–reaction problem. We first show that the results of the simulation can be mainly predicted by a simple analysis of the data. A finite volume scheme, with three different treatments of the convective term, is then shown to deliver accurate and stable results under a low computational cost.
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Chénier, E., Eymard, R. & Nicolas, X. A Finite Volume Scheme for the Transport of Radionucleides in Porous Media. Computational Geosciences 8, 163–172 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:COMG.0000035077.63408.71
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