An almost fourth order uniformly convergent domain decomposition method for a coupled system of singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion equations

  • Authors:
  • S. Chandra Sekhara Rao;Sunil Kumar

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We consider a system of M(=2) singularly perturbed equations of reaction-diffusion type coupled through the reaction term. A high order Schwarz domain decomposition method is developed to solve the system numerically. The method splits the original domain into three overlapping subdomains. On two boundary layer subdomains we use a compact fourth order difference scheme on a uniform mesh while on the interior subdomain we use a hybrid scheme on a uniform mesh. We prove that the method is almost fourth order @e-uniformly convergent. Furthermore, we prove that when @e is small, one iteration is sufficient to get almost fourth order @e-uniform convergence. Numerical experiments are performed to support the theoretical results.