Title

A balanced finite element method for a system of singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion two-point boundary value problems

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Numerical Algorithms

Abstract

A system of linear coupled reaction-diffusion equations is considered, where each equation is a two-point boundary value problem and all equations share the same small diffusion coefficient. A finite element method using piecewise quadratic splines that are globally C1 is introduced; its novelty lies in the norm associated with the method, which is stronger than the usual energy norm and is “balanced”, i.e., each term in the norm is O(1) when the norm is applied to the true solution of the system. On a standard Shishkin mesh with N subintervals, it is shown that the method is O(N−1lnN)$O(N^{-1}\ln N)$ accurate in the balanced norm. Numerical results to illustrate this result are presented.

First Page

691

Last Page

707

DOI

10.1007/s11075-015-9969-6

Publication Date

12-1-2015

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