TY - JOUR
T1 - Uniformly Convergent 3-Tgfem vs Lsfem for Singularly Perturbed Convection-Diffusion Problems on a Shishkin Based Logarithmic Mesh
AU - VIVEK SANGWAN AND B. V. RATHISH KUMAR
JO - International Journal of Numerical Analysis Modeling Series B
VL - 4
SP - 315
EP - 334
PY - 2013
DA - 2013/04
SN - 4
DO - http://doi.org/
UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/ijnamb/260.html
KW - Boundary layer
KW - singularly perturbed problems
KW - mass-lumped schemes
KW - finite element method
KW - Taylor Galerkin method
KW - exponentially fitted splines
KW - least-squares method
KW - error estimates
KW - uniform convergence
AB - In the present work, three-step Taylor Galerkin finite element method(3TGFEM) and least-squares finite element method(LSFEM) have been discussed for solving parabolic singularly
perturbed problems. For singularly perturbed problems, a small parameter called singular
perturbation parameter is multiplied with the highest order derivative term. As this singular perturbation
parameter approaches to zero, a very sharp change occurs in the solution, which makes
it difficult to find solution by traditional methods unless some special treatment is employed. A
comparison on the performance of the three schemes namely, (a) 3TGFEM with exponentially
fitted splines, (b) explicit least-squares finite element method with linear basis functions and (c)
3TGFEM with linear basis functions, for solving the parabolic singularly perturbed problems has
been made. For all the three schemes Shishkin based logarithmic mesh has been used for numerical
computations. It has been found out that the 3TGFEM scheme with exponentially fitted splines
provides more accurate results as compared to the other two schemes. Detailed error estimates for
the three-step Taylor Galerkin scheme with exponentially fitted splines have been presented. The
scheme is shown to be conditionally uniform convergent. It is third order accurate in time variable
and linear in space variable. Numerical results have been presented for all the three schemes for
both linear and non-linear problems.