A weak Galerkin finite element method for fourth-order parabolic singularly perturbed problems on layer adapted Shishkin mesh

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a weak Galerkin finite element approximation for a class of fourth-order singularly perturbed parabolic problems. The problem exhibits boundary layers and so we have considered layer adapted triangulations, in particular Shishkin triangular mesh in the spatial domain. For temporal discretization, we utilize the Crank-Nicolson scheme on a uniform mesh. Stability and error estimates along with the uniform convergence of the method has been proved. Numerical examples are included which verifies our analysis.