A Parameter-Uniform Finite Difference Method for a Singularly Perturbed Initial Value Problem: a Special Case

Author(s):  
S. Valarmathi ◽  
J. J. H. Miller
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 425-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fevzi Erdogan ◽  
Mehmet Giyas Sakar ◽  
Onur Saldır

AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to present a uniform finite difference method for numerical solution of a initial value problem for semilinear second order singularly perturbed delay differential equation. A numerical method is constructed for this problem which involves appropriate piecewise-uniform Shishkin mesh on each time subinterval. The method is shown to uniformly convergent with respect to the perturbation parameter. A numerical experiment illustrate in practice the result of convergence proved theoretically.


A finite-difference method is developed for solving two coupled, ordinary differential equations that model a sequence of chemical reactions. The initial-value problem is highly nonlinear and involves three parameters. Various types of theoretical solution of this problem (the Sal’nikov thermokinetic oscillator problem) may be found, depending on these parameters; this is because the stationary point is surrounded by up to two limit cycles. The well-known, first-order, explicit Euler method and an implicit finite difference method of the same order are used to compute the solution. It is shown that this implicit method may, in fact, be used explicitly and extensive numerical experiments are made to confirm the superior stability properties of the alternative method.


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