Analysis of SDFEM on Shishkin triangular meshes and hybrid meshes for problems with characteristic layers (Q333234)

The authors consider the approximation of a model singularly perturbed convection-diffusion equation on a Shishkin triangular mesh and hybrid meshes using the streamline diffusion finite element method (SDFEM). Supercloseness property of \(u^I -u^N\) is obtained, where \(u^I\) (resp. \(u^N\)) is the interpolant of the solution \(u\) (resp. is the SDFEM's solution). The analysis depends on novel integral inequalities for the diffusion and convection parts in the bilinear form. Furthermore, analysis on hybrid meshes shows that bilinear elements should be recommended for the exponential layer, not for the characteristic layer. Some numerical experiments are presented to support these theoretical results.