Mesfin Mekuria Woldaregay, Gemechis File Duressa

Numerical Treatment of Singularly Perturbed Parabolic Differential Difference Equations

abstract:
This paper deals with the numerical treatment of singularly perturbed parabolic differential-difference equations. The considered equations contain a small perturbation parameter $\varepsilon\in (0,1]$ multiplied by the highest order derivative term, and shift parameters attached with the nonderivative terms. The solution of the equations exhibits an exponential boundary layer due to the presence of the perturbation parameter $\varepsilon$. Classical numerical methods fail to give relevant approximate solutions when the perturbation parameter approaches zero. We propose numerical schemes that converge uniformly irrespective of the parameter $\varepsilon$. The numerical schemes are formulated by using the Crank Nicolson method in temporal discretization, and the midpoint upwind non-standard finite difference method on uniform mesh and Shishkin mesh for spatial discretization. The schemes satisfy the discrete maximum principle and the uniform stability estimate. The uniform convergence of the schemes is proved with the second order of convergence in the temporal direction and with the first order of convergence in the spatial direction. Numerical test examples are considered for validating the theoretical findings and analysis of the schemes.

Mathematics Subject Classification: 65M06, 65M12, 65M15

Key words and phrases: Midpoint upwind, singularly perturbed, differential difference, uniform convergence, Shishkin mesh