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In this paper, we propose a tailored-finite-point method for a kind of singular perturbation problems in unbounded domains. First, we use the artificial boundary method (Han in Frontiers and Prospects of Contemporary Applied Mathematics, [2005]) to reduce the original problem to a problem on bounded computational domain. Then we propose a new approach to construct a discrete scheme for the reduced problem, where our finite point method has been tailored to some particular properties or solutions of the problem. From the numerical results, we find that our new methods can achieve very high accuracy with very coarse mesh even for very small ε. In the contrast, the traditional finite element method does not get satisfactory numerical results with the same mesh.
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Han was supported by the NSFC Project No. 10471073.
Z. Huang was supported by the NSFC Projects No. 10301017, and 10676017, the National Basic Research Program of China under the grant 2005CB321701.
R.B. Kellogg was supported by the Boole Centre for Research in Informatics at National University of Ireland, Cork and by Science Foundation Ireland under the Basic Research Grant Programme 2004 (Grants 04/BR/M0055, 04/BR/M0055s1).
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Han, H., Huang, Z. & Kellogg, R.B. A Tailored Finite Point Method for a Singular Perturbation Problem on an Unbounded Domain. J Sci Comput 36, 243–261 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10915-008-9187-7
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