Limitations of Richardson's extrapolation for a high order fitted mesh method for self-adjoint singularly perturbed problems (Q2379899)

The paper is concerned with the efficiency of Richardson's extrapolation in solving singularly perturbed two-point boundary value problems. The authors investigate the convergence rate of a fitted mesh finite difference method proposed by \textit{K. C. Patidar} [Appl. Math. Comput. 188, No.~1, 720--733 (2007; Zbl 1119.65070)], which itself is known to have uniform convergence of order four, as it is combined with Richardson's extrapolation technique. An error bound is obtained for the numerical solution after using the extrapolation. Furthermore, it is pointed out that, contrary to the expectation, this well-known acceleration technique improves the accuracy only slightly and does not increases the convergence rate. Finally, two numerical examples are given for illustration.