TY - JOUR T1 - Error Estimates in Balanced Norms of Finite Element Methods for Higher Order Reaction-Diffusion Problems AU - Franz , Sebastian AU - Roos , Hans-G. JO - International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling VL - 4 SP - 532 EP - 542 PY - 2020 DA - 2020/08 SN - 17 DO - http://doi.org/ UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/ijnam/17868.html KW - Balanced norms, reaction-diffusion problems, finite element methods. AB -

Error estimates of finite element methods for reaction-diffusion problems are often realised in the related energy norm. In the singularly perturbed case, however, this norm is not adequate. A different scaling of the $H$$m$ seminorm for 2$m$-th order problems leads to a balanced norm which reflects the layer behaviour correctly. We prove error estimates in such balanced norms and improve thereby existing estimates known in literature.