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A semilinear reaction-diffusion equation with multiple solutions is considered in a smooth two-dimensional domain. Its diffusion parameter ε 2 is arbitrarily small, which induces boundary layers. We extend the numerical method and its maximum norm error analysis of the paper [N. Kopteva: Math. Comp. 76 (2007) 631–646], in which a parametrization of the boundary \(\partial\Omega\) is assumed to be known, to a more practical case when the domain is defined by an ordered set of boundary points. It is shown that, using layer-adapted meshes, one gets second-order convergence in the discrete maximum norm, uniformly in ε for ε ≤ Ch. Here h > 0 is the maximum side length of mesh elements, while the number of mesh nodes does not exceed Ch − 2. Numerical results are presented that support our theoretical error estimates.
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Kopteva, N. (2009). Numerical Analysis of a 2d Singularly Perturbed Semilinear Reaction-Diffusion Problem. In: Margenov, S., Vulkov, L.G., Waśniewski, J. (eds) Numerical Analysis and Its Applications. NAA 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5434. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00464-3_8
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