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Anisotropic mesh refinement for singularly perturbed reaction diffusion problems

The paper is concerned with the finite element resolution of layers appearing
in singularly perturbed problems. A special anisotropic grid of Shishkin type
is constructed for reaction diffusion problems. Estimates of the finite element
error in the energy norm are derived for two methods, namely the standard
Galerkin method and a stabilized Galerkin method. The estimates are uniformly
valid with respect to the (small) diffusion parameter. One ingredient is a
pointwise description of derivatives of the continuous solution. A numerical
example supports the result.

Another key ingredient for the error analysis is a refined estimate for
(higher) derivatives of the interpolation error. The assumptions on admissible
anisotropic finite elements are formulated in terms of geometrical conditions
for triangles and tetrahedra. The application of these estimates is not
restricted to the special problem considered in this paper.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:17483
Date30 October 1998
CreatorsApel, Th., Lube, G.
PublisherTechnische Universität Chemnitz
Source SetsHochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typedoc-type:preprint, info:eu-repo/semantics/preprint, doc-type:Text
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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