A NSFD Discretization of Two-Dimensional Singularly Perturbed Semilinear Convection-Diffusion Problems

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Despite the availability of an abundant literature on singularly perturbed problems, interest toward non-linear problems has been limited. In particular, parameter-uniform methods for singularly perturbed semilinear problems are quasi-non-existent. In this article, we study a two-dimensional semilinear singularly perturbed convection-diffusion problems. Our approach requires linearization of the continuous semilinear problem using the quasilinearization technique. We then discretize the resulting linear problems in the framework of non-standard finite difference methods. A rigorous convergence analysis is conducted showing that the proposed method is first-order parameter-uniform convergent. Finally, two test examples are used to validate the theoretical findings.

Keywords

• semilinear singularly perturbed problems
• two-dimensional partial differential equations
• fitted operator finite difference method
• quasilinearization
• error analysis
• uniform convergence