Galerkin and streamline diffusion finite element methods on a Shishkin mesh for a convection-diffusion problem with corner singularities

Abstract

An error analysis of Galerkin and streamline diffusion finite element methods for the numerical solution of a singularly perturbed convectiondiffusion problem is given. The problem domain is the unit square. The solution contains boundary layers and corner singularities. A tensor product Shishkin mesh is used, with piecewise bilinear trial functions. The error bounds are uniform in the singular perturbation parameter. Numerical results supporting the theory are given. © 2011 American Mathematical Society.