An Alternative Strategy for the Solution of Heat and Incompressible Fluid Flow Problems via Finite Volume Method Masoud Nickaeen a , Ali Ashrafizadeh b , Stefan Turek a a Institute of Applied Mathematics, Dortmund University of Technology, Dortmund, Germany b Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran running head title: Characteristic-Based Split Finite Volume Method Corresponding author: M. Nickaeen, Institute of Applied Mathematics, Dortmund University of Technology, Vogelpothsweg 87, D-44227 Dortmund, Germany. E-mail: masoud.nickaeen@math.tu-dortmund.de