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Table 3 Discretization errors of gradient reconstruction and face midpoint value approximation

From: Accuracy analysis of gradient reconstruction on isotropic unstructured meshes and its effects on inviscid flow simulation

Discretization errors

GG-Cell (reg. tri.)

GG-Cell (reg. double-split tri.)

LSQ-basic (reg. tri.)

LSQ-basic (reg. double-split tri.)

Face midpoint value approximation

face AB

O(dx2)

O(dx2)

–

–

face BC

O(dx2)

O(dx)

face AC

O(dx2)

O(dx)

Gradient reconstruction

error of \( \frac{\partial f}{\partial x} \)

O(dx)

O(1)

O(dx)

O(dx)

error of \( \frac{\partial f}{\partial y} \)

O(dx)

O(1)

O(dx)

O(dx)