An efficient hybrid numerical method based on an additive scheme for solving coupled systems of singularly perturbed linear parabolic problems

Abstract

We construct an efficient hybrid numerical method for solving coupled systems of singularly perturbed linear parabolic problems of reaction‐diffusion type. The discretization of the coupled system is based on the use of an additive or splitting scheme on a uniform mesh in time and a hybrid scheme on a layer‐adapted mesh in space. It is proven that the developed numerical method is uniformly convergent of first order in time and third order in space. The purpose of the additive scheme is to decouple the components of the vector approximate solution at each time step and thus make the computation more efficient. The numerical results confirm the theoretical convergence result and illustrate the efficiency of the proposed strategy.