On the non-existence of ε-uniform finite difference methods on uniform meshes for semilinear two-point boundary value problems

Mathematics of Computation

Volumn 67, Issue 222, 1998, Pages 603-617

  Farrell, Paul A ^a   Miller, John J H ^b   O'Riordan, Eugene ^c   Shishkin, Grigorii I ^d  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^d INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS AND MECHANICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Finite difference scheme; Frozen fitting factor; Semilinear boundary value problem; Singular perturbation; Uniform mesh; uniform convergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040709264     PISSN: 00255718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/s0025-5718-98-00922-3     Document Type: Article

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