A ROBUST OVERLAPPING SCHWARZ METHOD FOR SINGULARLY PERTURBED SEMILINEAR REACTION-DIFFUSION PROBLEM WITH MULTIPLE SOLUTIONS

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Abstract

An overlapping Schwarz domain decomposition is applied to a semilinear reaction-diffusion two-point boundary value problem with multiple solutions. Its diffusion parameter ε2 is arbitrarily small, which induces boundary layers. The Schwarz method invokes two boundary-layer subdomains and an interior subdomain, the narrow overlapping regions being of width O(ε| ln ε|). Constructing suband super-solutions, we prove existence and investigate the accuracy of discrete solutions in particular subdomains. It is shown that when ε ≤ CN-1 and layer-adapted meshes of Bakhvalov and Shishkin types are used, one iteration is sufficient to get second-order convergence (with, in the case of the Shishkin mesh, a logarithmic factor) in the maximum norm uniformly in ε, where N is the number of mesh intervals in each subdomain. Numerical results are presented to support our theoretical conclusions.

Original languageEnglish (Ireland)
Pages (from-to)680-695
Number of pages16
JournalInternational Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling
Volume6
Issue number4
Publication statusPublished - 2009

Keywords

  • Boundary layers
  • Domain decomposition
  • Overlapping Schwarz method
  • Semilinear reaction-diffusion
  • Singularly perturbed

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