Table of contents : Title page 4 Preface 8 Chapter 1. Introduction and Preliminary Material 10
1.1. A simple example 10 1.2. A little motivation and history 16 1.3. Notation 16 1.4. Maximum principle and barrier functions 17 1.5. Asymptotic expansions 19
Chapter 2. Convection-Diffusion Problems in One Dimension 24
2.1. Asymptotic analysis—an extended example 24 2.2. Green’s functions 30 2.3. A priori bounds on the solution and its derivatives 33 2.4. Decompositions of the solution 47
Chapter 3. Finite Difference Methods in One Dimension 52
6.1. The loss of stability in the (Bubnov–)Galerkin FEM 104 6.2. Relationship to classical FEM analysis 107 6.3. ?*-splines 109 6.4. The streamline-diffusion finite element method (SUPG) 112 6.5. Stability of the Galerkin FEM for higher-degree polynomials 120 6.6. Shishkin meshes 126 6.7. Discontinuous Galerkin finite element method 135 6.8. Continuous interior penalty (CIP) method 140 6.9. Adaptive methods 148
Chapter 7. Concluding Remarks 152 Bibliography 154 Index 164