Monotonicity in RT0 and PWCF methods on triangular and tetrahedral meshes

Resumo

In this paper we derive the monotonicity conditions for condensed-algebraic systems obtained by the discretization of the Poisson’s problem by the classical lowest order Raviart–Thomas (RT₀) and the piece-wise constant fluxes (PWCF) MFE methods on triangular and tetrahedral meshes. We also establish the correspondence between the condensed system matrices resulting from application of these two methods.