USSR Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Physics
A note on fitted operator methods for a laminar jet problem
Applied Numerical Mathematics
Numerical solution of a convection diffusion problem with Robin boundary conditions
Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Neural, Parallel & Scientific Computations
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A Dirichlet boundary value problem for a delay parabolic differential equation is studied on a rectangular domain in the x-t plane. The second-order space derivative is multiplied by a small singular perturbation parameter, which gives rise to parabolic boundary layers on the two lateral sides of the rectangle. A numerical method comprising a standard finite difference operator (centred in space, implicit in time) on a rectangular piecewise uniform fitted mesh of N"xxN"t elements condensing in the boundary layers is proved to be robust with respect to the small parameter, or parameter-uniform, in the sense that its numerical solutions converge in the maximum norm to the exact solution uniformly well for all values of the parameter in the half-open interval (0,1]. More specifically, it is shown that the errors are bounded in the maximum norm by C(N"x^-^2ln^2N"x+N"t^-^1), where C is a constant independent not only of N"x and N"t but also of the small parameter. Numerical results are presented, which validate numerically this theoretical result and show that a numerical method consisting of the standard finite difference operator on a uniform mesh of N"xxN"t elements is not parameter-robust.