TY - JOUR T1 - A Robust Finite Difference Method for a Singularly Perturbed Degenerate Parabolic Problems, Part I JO - International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling VL - 3 SP - 549 EP - 566 PY - 2010 DA - 2010/07 SN - 7 DO - http://doi.org/ UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/ijnam/737.html KW - Singularly perturbed, degenerate parabolic problem, Shishkin mesh. AB -

A singularly perturbed degenerate parabolic problem in one space dimension is considered. Bounds on derivatives of the solution are proved; these bounds depend on the two data parameters that determine how singularly perturbed and how degenerate the problem is. A tensor product mesh is constructed that is equidistant in time and of Shishkin type in space. A finite difference method on this mesh is proved to converge; the rate of convergence obtained depends on the degeneracy parameter but is independent of the singular perturbation parameter. Numerical results are presented.