An adaptive grid method for a singularly perturbed convection-diffusion equation with a discontinuous convection coefficient

Abstract

In this paper, an adaptive grid method is put forward to solve a singularly perturbed convection-diffusion problem with a discontinuous convection coefficient. First, this problem is discretized by using an upwind finite difference scheme on an arbitrary nonuniform grid except the fixed jump point. Then, a first-order maximum norm a posterior error estimate is derived. Further, based on this a posteriori error estimation and the mesh equidistribution principle, an adaptive grid generation algorithm is constructed. Finally, some numerical experiments are presented that support our theoretical estimate.