Numerical analysis of singularly perturbed parabolic reaction diffusion differential difference equations

Abstract

The authors present numerical analysis of singularly perturbed parabolic problems. The previous papers in this direction focussed on the convection-diffusion problems with regular type of boundary layers. It is very difficult and almost impossible as stated in the literature, e.g, in Chapter 14 of ‘Fitted numerical methods for singular perturbation problems: error estimates in the maximum norm for linear problems in one and two dimensions’ (1996) by Miller, John JH and O'Riordan, Eugene and Shishkin, Grigorii I, to capture singularities due to parabolic layers and develop a robust scheme for reaction-diffusion problems with general values of space shifts. The work is in progress now and this is the first paper in this direction. In this work, we are investigating such problems and develop a robust numerical scheme using Mickens's non-standard finite difference scheme and special mesh. Furthermore, numerical examples have been presented to verify the theoretical findings.

KEYWORDS:

• Singular perturbation
• parabolic layers
• delay problems
• robust schemes
• non-standard finite difference method

2010 AMS SUBJECT CLASSIFICATIONS:

• 65L11
• 65M12
• 35K20

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).