A tension spline fitted numerical scheme for singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion problem with negative shift

Abstract Objective The paper is focused on developing and analyzing a uniformly convergent numerical scheme for a singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion problem with a negative shift. The solution of such problem exhibits strong boundary layers at the two ends of the domain due to the influence of the perturbation parameter, and the term with negative shift causes interior layer. The rapidly changing behavior of the solution in the layers brings significant difficulties in solving the problem analytically. We have treated the problem by proposing a numerical scheme using the implicit Euler method in the temporal direction and a fitted tension spline method in the spatial direction with uniform meshes. Result Stability and uniform error estimates are investigated for the developed numerical scheme. The theoretical finding is demonstrated by numerical examples. It is obtained that the developed numerical scheme is uniformly convergent of order one in time and order two in space.