A uniformly convergent difference scheme for a semilinear singular perturbation problem

Summary We present a difference scheme for solving a semilinear singular perturbation problem with any number of turning points of arbitrary orders. It is shown that a solution of the scheme converges, uniformly in a perturbation parameter, to that of the continuous problem.     

A note on lower Studniarski derivative of the perturbation map in parameterized vector optimization

The note provides two results concerning sensitivity analysis in parameterized vector optimization. This is appropriate modifications for the deficiencies contained in two earlier results by Sun and Li (Optim. Lett. 5:601–614, 2011). Several examples are given for illustrating the results obtained.     

The parameterized Steiner problem and the singular Plateau problem via energy

The Steiner problem is the problem of finding the shortest network connecting a given set of points. By the singular Plateau Problem, we will mean the problem of finding an area-minimizing surface (or a set of surfaces adjoined so that it is homeomorphic to a 2-complex) spanning a graph. In this paper, we study the parametric versions of the Steiner problem and the singular Plateau problem by a variational method using a modified energy functional for maps. The main results are that the solutions of our one- and two-dimensional variational problems yield length and area minimizing maps respectively, i.e. we provide new methods to solve the Steiner and singular Plateau problems by the use of energy functionals. Furthermore, we show that these solutions satisfy a natural balancing condition along its singular sets. The key issue involved in the two-dimensional problem is the understanding of the moduli space of conformal structures on a 2-complex.

     

Resonance and asymptotic solutions of a singular perturbation problem

A singular perturbation problem for a second-order ODE witha pair of singular boundary points and a pair of interior second-orderturning points is studied. Four leading-order uniform approximationsare formally constructed, each is restricted to a region includingone critical point. The neighbouring approximations are formallymatched independently on an overlap domain, yielding an asymptoticapproximation to leading order of the general solution. Twogeneralized formulae for the singular and turning point eigenvaluesthat exhibit the resonance conditions are derived. The resonancecriteria due to the influence of every possible combinationof the critical points are investigated.     

Fourth order algorithms for a semilinear singular perturbation problem

Fourth order finite-difference algorithms for a semilinear singularly perturbed reaction–diffusion problem are discussed and compared both theoretically and numerically. One of them is the method of Sun and Stynes (1995) which uses a piecewise equidistant discretization mesh of Shishkin type. Another one is a simplified version of Vulanović's method (1993), based on a discretization mesh of Bakhvalov type. It is shown that the Bakhvalov mesh produces much better numerical results. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Stability of a finite-difference discretization of a singular perturbation problem

A new higher-order finite-difference scheme is proposed for a linear singularly perturbed convection–diffusion problem in one dimension. It is shown how the theory of inverse-monotone matrices, the Lorenz decomposition in particular, can be applied to the stability analysis of the resulting linear system.     

A second-order difference scheme for a parameterized singular perturbation problem

In this paper we consider a singularly perturbed quasilinear boundary value problem depending on a parameter. The problem is discretized using a hybrid difference scheme on Shishkin-type meshes. We show that the scheme is second-order convergent, in the discrete maximum norm, independent of singular perturbation parameter. Numerical experiments support these theoretical results.     

A note on the perturbation of singular values

In this note a variant of the classical perturbation theorem for singular values is given. The bounds explain why perturbations will tend to increase rather than decrease singular values of the same order of magnitude as the perturbation.     

Multigrid convergence for a singular perturbation problem

So far there has been no analysis of multigrid methods applied to singularly perturbed Dirichlet boundary-value problems. Only for periodic boundary conditions does the Fourier transformation (mode analysis) apply, and it is not obvious that the convergence results carry over to the Dirichlet case, since the eigenfunctions are quite different in the two cases. In this paper we prove a close relationship between multigrid convergence for the easily analysable case of periodic conditions and the convergence for the Dirichlet case.     

A rational spectral collocation method for solving a class of parameterized singular perturbation problems

A new kind of numerical method based on rational spectral collocation with the sinh transformation is presented for solving parameterized singularly perturbed two-point boundary value problems with one boundary layer. By means of the sinh transformation, the original Chebyshev points are mapped onto the transformed ones clustered near the singular points of the problem. The results from asymptotic analysis as regards the singularity of the solution are employed to determine the parameters in the transformation. Numerical experiments including several nonlinear cases illustrate the high accuracy and efficiency of our method.     

On a singular perturbation problem in magnetohydrodynamics

Zusammenfassung Die Strömung einer zähen, inkompressiblen und elektrisch leitenden Flüssigkeit über einen rotationssymmetrischen Körper wird studiert mit Hilfe einer singulären Methode der Störungsrechnung. Eine asymptotische, im ganzen Strömungsfeld gültige Lösung wird gegeben für grosse Hartmann-ZahlenM.Die Resultate ergeben folgendes Strömungsbild: Zwei Totwasser-Bereiche von der LängeO (M) und der BreiteO (1) werden vor und nach dem Körper geformt. Sie sind begrenzt durch eine zylindrische Schubschicht, die vom grössten Durchmesser des Körpers aus parabolisch stromaufwärts und stromabwärts anwächst. In einer Entfernung der GrössenordnungO (M) geht diese Schubschicht in eine Wirbelstrasse über, die sich parabolisch ins Unendliche erstreckt. Die Einzelheiten des Strömungsbildes werden analytisch aufgezeigt. Die Wirbelstrasse wird mit derjenigen der klassischen Navier-Stokes-Theorie verglichen.     

A singular perturbation problem with discontinuous data in a cuboid

We analyse the asymptotic behaviour of the solution of a 3Dsingularly perturbed convection–diffusion problem withdiscontinuous Dirichlet boundary data defined in a cuboid. Wewrite the solution in terms of a double series and we obtainan asymptotic approximation of the solution when the singularparameter 0. This approximation is given in terms of a finitecombination of products of error functions and characterizesthe effect of the discontinuities on the small -behaviour ofthe solution in the singular layers.     

A Schrödinger singular perturbation problem

Consider the equation −ε²Δu_ε + q(x)u_ε = f(u_ε) in , u(∞) < ∞, ε = const > 0. Under what assumptions on q(x) and f(u) can one prove that the solution u_ε exists and lim_ε→0u_ε = u(x), where u(x) solves the limiting problem q(x)u = f(u)? These are the questions discussed in the paper.     

Iterative solution of a singular convection-diffusion perturbation problem

An iterative domain decomposition method is developed to solve a singular perturbation problem. The problem consists of a convection-diffusion equation with a discontinuous (piecewise-constant) diffusion coefficient, and the problem domain is decomposed into two subdomains, on each of which the coefficient is constant. After showing that the boundary value problem is well posed, we indicate a specific numerical implementation of the iterative technique that combines the finite element method on one subdomain with the method of matched asymptotic expansions on the other subdomain. This procedure extends work by Carlenzoli and Quarteroni, which was originally intended for a boundary layer problem with an outer region and an inner region. Our extension carries over to a problem where the domain consists of the outer and inner boundary layer regions plus a region in which the diffusion coefficient is constant and significant in magnitude. An unexpected benefit of our new implementation is its efficiency, which is due to the fact that at each iteration the problem needs to be solved explicitly only on one subdomain. It is only when the final approximation on the entire domain is desired that the matched asymptotic expansions approximation need be computed on the second subdomain. Two-dimensional convergence results and numerical results illustrating the method for a two-dimensional test problem are given.     

Iterative solution of a singular convection-diffusion perturbation problem

An iterative domain decomposition method is developed to solve a singular perturbation problem. The problem consists of a convection-diffusion equation with a discontinuous (piecewise-constant) diffusion coefficient, and the problem domain is decomposed into two subdomains, on each of which the coefficient is constant. After showing that the boundary value problem is well posed, we indicate a specific numerical implementation of the iterative technique that combines the finite element method on one subdomain with the method of matched asymptotic expansions on the other subdomain. This procedure extends work by Carlenzoli and Quarteroni, which was originally intended for a boundary layer problem with an outer region and an inner region. Our extension carries over to a problem where the domain consists of the outer and inner boundary layer regions plus a region in which the diffusion coefficient is constant and significant in magnitude. An unexpected benefit of our new implementation is its efficiency, which is due to the fact that at each iteration the problem needs to be solved explicitly only on one subdomain. It is only when the final approximation on the entire domain is desired that the matched asymptotic expansions approximation need be computed on the second subdomain. Two-dimensional convergence results and numerical results illustrating the method for a two-dimensional test problem are given.Received: February 12, 2004     

On a singular perturbation problem involving a ``circular-well' potential

We study the asymptotic behavior, as a small parameter goes to 0, of the minimizers for a variational problem which involves a ``circular-well' potential, i.e., a potential vanishing on a closed smooth curve in . We thus generalize previous results obtained for the special case of the Ginzburg-Landau potential.

     

A two phase elliptic singular perturbation problem with a forcing term

We study the following two phase elliptic singular perturbation problem:

Δu^ε=β_ε(u^ε)+f^ε,