Comparison Study on the Performances of Finite Volume Method and Finite Difference Method

<table class="table-group" width="800px"><tr class="fig-image" id="a"><td><img alt="596218.fig.009a" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/jam/volume-2013/596218/figures/596218.fig.009a.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(a) </b>Thom</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><img alt="596218.fig.009b" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/jam/volume-2013/596218/figures/596218.fig.009b.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(b) </b>Woods</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="c"><td><img alt="596218.fig.009c" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/jam/volume-2013/596218/figures/596218.fig.009c.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(c) </b>Jenson</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<table>Stream functions of lid-driven flow under variant boundary treatments with the grid of 20 × 20 (FVM in the left column and FDM in the right column).</table>

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Figure 9: Comparison Study on the Performances of Finite Volume Method and Finite Difference Method 