Advances in Difference Equations
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 781579, 9 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/781579

An exponentially fitted method for singularly perturbed delay differential equations

Fevzi Erdogan

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, Yuzuncu Yil University, 65080 Van, Turkey

Abstract

This paper deals with singularly perturbed initial value problem for linear first-order delay differential equation. An exponentially fitted difference scheme is constructed in an equidistant mesh, which gives first-order uniform convergence in the discrete maximum norm. The difference scheme is shown to be uniformly convergent to the continuous solution with respect to the perturbation parameter. A numerical example is solved using the presented method and compared the computed result with exact solution of the problem.