An almost second order fem for a weakly coupled system of two singularly perturbed differential equations of reaction-diffusion type with discontinuous source term

  • Authors:
  • A. Ramesh Babu;N. Ramanujam

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu, India;Department of Mathematics, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu, India

  • Venue:
  • Neural, Parallel & Scientific Computations - Special issue on computational techniques for differential equations will applications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper, we consider a Boundary Value Problem(BVP) for a weakly coupled system of two singularly perturbed ordinary differential equations of reaction-diffusion type with discontinuous source term. The solution of this type of problem exhibits boundary and interior layers. A numerical method based on finite element method on Shishkin and Bakhvalov-Shishkin meshes is presented. We derive an error estimate of order O(N-2 ln2 N) in the maximum norm. Numerical experiments are also presented to support our theoretical results.