  In this paper, we discuss the U-MUSCL reconstruction scheme -- an
unstructured-grid extension of Van Leer's kappa-scheme -- proposed by Burg for
the edge-based discretization [AIAA Paper 2005-4999]. This technique has been
widely used in practical unstructured-grid fluid-dynamics solvers but with
confusions: e.g., third-order accuracy with kappa=1/2 or kappa=1/3. This paper
clarifies some of these confusions: e.g., the U-MUSCL scheme can be third-order
accurate in the point-valued solution with kappa=1/3 on regular grids for
linear equations in all dimensions, it can be third-order accurate with
kappa=1/2 as the QUICK scheme in one dimension. It is shown that the U-MUSCL
scheme cannot be third-order accurate for nonlinear equations, except a very
special case of kappa=1/2 on regular simplex-element grids, but it can be an
accurate low-dissipation second-order scheme. It is also shown that U-MUSCL
extrapolates a quadratic function exactly with kappa=1/2 on arbitrary grids
provided the gradient is computed by a quadratic least-squares method. Two
techniques are discussed, which transform the U-MUSCL scheme into being
genuinely third-order accurate on a regular grid: an efficient
flux-reconstruction method and a special source term quadrature formula for
kappa=1/2.
