IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis Advance Access published online on March 20, 2008
IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis, doi:10.1093/imanum/drn001
Weighted error estimates of the continuous interior penalty method for singularly perturbed problems

Department of Mathematics, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9RF, UK

School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA

Department of Mathematics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
Email: e.n.burman{at}sussex.ac.uk
Email: leykekhman{at}math.uconn.edu
Corresponding author. Email: guzma033{at}umn.edu
Received on 7 February 2007. Accepted for publication 20 December 2007.
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In this paper, we analyse local properties of the continuous interior penalty (CIP) method for a model convection-dominated singularly perturbed convection–diffusion problem. We show weighted a priori error estimates, where the weight function exponentially decays outside the subdomain of interest. This result shows thats locally, the CIP method is comparable to the streamline-diffusion or the discontinuous Galerkin methods.
Key Words: singularly perturbed; convection–diffusion; local error analysis; continuous interior penalty method