A parameter uniform hybrid approach for singularly perturbed two-parameter parabolic problem with discontinuous data

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Document Type : Research Article

Authors

• Nirmali Roy
• Anuradha Jha

Department of Science and Mathematics, Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati, Bongora, India, 781015.

10.22067/ijnao.2025.90299.1536

Abstract

In this article, we address singularly perturbed two-parameter parabolic problem of the reaction-convection-diffusion type in two dimensions. These problems exhibit discontinuities in the source term and convection coefficient at particular domain points, which result in the formation of interior layers. The presence of two perturbation parameters leads to the formation of boundary layers with varying widths. Our primary focus is to address these layers and develop a scheme that is uniformly convergent. So we propose a hybrid monotone difference scheme for the spatial direction, implemented on a specially designed piece-wise uniform Shishkin mesh, combined with the Crank-Nicolson method on a uniform mesh for the temporal direction. The resulting scheme is proven to be uniformly convergent, with an order of almost two in the spatial direction and exactly two in the temporal direction. Numerical experiments support the theoretically proven higher order of convergence and shows that our approach results in better accuracy and convergence compared to other existing methods in the literature.

Keywords

• Interior layers
• Hybrid Method
• Singularly Perturbed
• Parabolic problem
• Shishkin mesh

Main Subjects

• Numerical methods for differential equations and its applications

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