On biorthogonal approximation of solutions of some boundary value problems on Shishkin mesh

Singularly perturbed boundary value problems are widely studied in applied problems of physicsand engineering. However, their solutions are rarely possible to construct in an explicit form, so numerical methods of solving such problems are actively studied. Functions that are the explicit orapproximate solution of this problem have huge boundary layer components; therefore, the application of classical interpolation methods leads to significant errors. This paper considers a piecewise-uniform Shishkin mesh, which allows improving the quality of approximation in the boundary layer. Alocal approximation scheme is implemented, minimal splines are used as basis functions, and the coefficients are calculated as de Boor-Fix type functional values, which are biorthogonal to minimalsplines. The results of numerical experiments are presented. They show that the discussed approximation method allows getting accurate approximations of functions that are the solutions of singularly perturbed boundary value problems, in comparison with previously published works.