p and rp-Spectral Element Methods for Two-dimensional Elliptic Boundary Layer Problems

DOI10.48550/arXiv.2609.29185MaRDI QIDQ7353527arXivFDO

Authors Akhlaq Husain, Sonia, Arshad Khan

Publication date 24 September 2026

Published in arXiv

Tldr We propose p and rp-spectral element methods for elliptic boundary layer problems on two-dimensional rectangular domains, where we use p-version with a fixed mesh and an rp-version with a boundary layer mesh consisting of thin needle-like elements near the boundary layer and coarse elements away from the layer. We derive stability estimates using non-conforming spectral element functions and construct robust preconditioners to manage the condition number of the normal equations derived from the least-squares formulation, achieving O(log W/W^2) for p-version and O(εα^(2W)) rates uniformly in ε, where 0<ε≤1 is the boundary layer parameter.

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.29185

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability and convergence of numerical methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N12) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Spectral, collocation and related methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N35)

arXiv classification

math.NA

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