A second order scheme for a time-dependent, singularly perturbed convection-diffusion equation (Q1612329)

The paper presents a numerical scheme for initial boundary value problems. A singularly perturbed one-dimensional time-dependent convection-diffusion equation is discretized in space using linear finite elements. For time discretization an implicit mid-point rule is used. It is shown that a Bakhvalov-Shishkin mesh yields a stable scheme for time dependent problems. The method is second-order convergent in space and time. The error estimates are illustrated by a numerical example.