A nonstandard fitted operator method for singularly perturbed parabolic reaction-diffusion problems with a large time delay (Q2081880)

Summary: In this paper, we design and investigate a higher order \(\varepsilon \)-uniformly convergent method to solve singularly perturbed parabolic reaction-diffusion problems with a large time delay. We use the Crank-Nicolson method for the time derivative, while the spatial derivative is discretized using a nonstandard finite difference approach on a uniform mesh. Furthermore, to improve the order of convergence, we used the Richardson extrapolation technique. The designed scheme converges independent of the perturbation parameter (\( \varepsilon \)-uniformly convergent) and also achieves fourth-order convergent in both time and spatial variables. Two model examples are considered to demonstrate the applicability of the suggested method. The proposed method produces better accuracy and a higher rate of convergence than some methods that appear in the literature.