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We present a new scheme for the discretization of heterogeneous anisotropic diffusion problems on general meshes. With light assumptions, we show that the algorithm can be written as a cell-centered scheme with a small stencil and that it is convergent for discontinuous tensors. The key point of the proof consists in showing both the strong and the weak consistency of the method. Besides, we study non-linear corrections to correct the FECC scheme, in order to satisfy the discrete maximum principle (DMP).The efficiency of the scheme is demonstrated through numerical tests of the 5th & 6th International Symposium on Finite Volumes for Complex Applications - FVCA 5 & 6. Moreover, the comparison with classical finite volume schemes emphasizes the precision of the method. We also show the good behaviour of the algorithm for nonconforming meshes. In addition, we give some numerical tests to check the existence for the non-linear FECC schemes; Nous présentons de nouveaux schémas numériques pour l'approximation de problèmes de diffusion hétérogène et anisotrope sur des maillages généraux. Sous des hypothèses correspondant aux cas industriels, nous montrons qu'un premier schéma, qui est centré sur les mailles, possède un petit stencil et converge dans le cas de tenseurs discontinus. La preuve de la convergence repose sur des propriétés de consistance des gradients discrets issus du schéma. Dans une seconde partie, nous proposons des méthodes de correction non linéaire du schéma initial pour obtenir le principe du maximum. L'efficacité de ces schémas est étudiée sur des tests numériques ayant fait l'objet de bancs d'essais d'une grande variété de schémas de volumes finis. Les comparaisons avec les schémas volumes finis classiques montrent l'apport de ces schémas en termes de précision. Nous montrons ainsi le bon comportement de ces schémas sur des maillages déformés, et le maintien de la précision des schémas non-linéaires, alors que les oscillations ont été supprimées

The paper is concerned with a low-order finite element method, namely the staggered cell-centered finite element method, which has been proposed and analyzed in Ong et al. (2015) for two-dimensional compressible and nearly incompressible linear elasticity problems. In this work, we extend the results to the three-dimensional case and focus on the creating of the meshes. In particular, from a general primal mesh M , we construct a polygonal dual mesh M ∗ and its submesh M ∗ ∗ in a way such that each dual control volume of M ∗ corresponds to a primal vertex and is a union (macro-element) of some fixed number of adjacent tetrahedral elements of M ∗ ∗ . The displacement is approximated by piecewise trilinear functions on the subdual mesh M ∗ ∗ and the pressure by piecewise constant functions on the dual mesh M ∗ . As for two-dimensional case, such construction of the meshes and approximation spaces satisfies the macroelement condition, which implies stability and convergence of the scheme. Numerical experiments are carried out to investigate the performance of the proposed method on various mesh types.