The combination technique for a two-dimensional convection-diffusion problem with exponential layers
Convection-diffusion problems posed on the unit square and with solutions displaying exponential layers are solved using a sparse grid Galerkin finite element method with Shishkin meshes. Writing for the maximum number of mesh intervals in each coordinate direction, our “combination” method simply adds or subtracts solutions that have been computed by the Galerkin FEM on , and meshes. It is shown that the combination FEM yields (up to a factor ) the same order of accuracy in the associated...