Special meshes for finite difference approximations to an advection- diffusion equation with parabolic layers (Q1346555)

A model problem for fluid flow at high Reynolds number is examined. Parabolic boundary layers are present because part of the boundary of the domain is a characteristic of the reduced differential equation. For such problems it is shown, by numerical example, that upwind finite difference schemes on uniform meshes are not \(\varepsilon\)-uniformly convergent in the discrete \(L_ \infty\) norm, where \(\varepsilon\) is the singular perturbation parameter. A discrete \(L_ \infty\) \(\varepsilon\)-uniformly convergent method is constructed for a singularly perturbed elliptic equation, whose solutions contains parabolic boundary layers for small values of the singular perturbation parameter \(\varepsilon\). This method makes use of a special piecewise uniform mesh.