Tikhonov regularization of an elliptic PDE (Q5944015)

The authors consider a singularly perturbed elliptic boundary value problem of the form \(-\varepsilon^2\frac{\partial^2u}{\partial x^2} -\frac{\partial^2u}{\partial y^2} +u=f(x,y)\) in \(\Omega\), \(u=0\) on \(\partial \Omega\), where \(\Omega= (0, \pi)\times (0, \pi)\), \(\varepsilon\in (0,1]\) is a small parameter and \(f(x,y)\) is a sufficiently smooth function on \(\Omega\) and is bounded in \(\overline \Omega\). They use Tikhonov's regularization to cast a related well-posed problem. A priori error estimates of the regularized solution and of the difference between the original and the regularized one are also derived.