Homogeneous difference schemes on non-equidistant grids 171
where 1/;(x) = (aux)x - du+ <p(x) is the error of approximation.
On account of the balance equation (1) the error of approximation 1/;;
reduces to
where
(7)
1/;i = 1li:, 1 + 1/J; J 17i = (aux)i - (k u')i-1/2,
'''· * = (1n. - <p.)^0 - d 1l· + -^1
'+'i ri 1 i i Ji.
'
q(x)u(x) dx.
Xi-1/2
In what follows the functions k, q and f will be smooth for xi _ 1 <
x < xi and x; < x < xi+ 1 and possess discontinuities of the first kind at a
single node xi. Combination of the expansions
for s < 0 and f(xi + s hi) = f;+o + s h;+ 1 I:+o + O(hf+ 1 ) for s > 0 with
0
formula (3) for <pi gives
&; = h; f;-o; ~i+1 f;+o + ( h7 f~-112) _. + O(nf).
x) z
Likewise,
1
n
' Xi-1/2
With the relations ai = ki 112 and ux,i = u~ 112 +0(hf) in view, we deduce
from the foregoing that for the scheme with coefficients (5)
(8)
whose ingredients behave as follows:
1fJ7* = O(nf),
(9)
_ hf (qu-J);_1/2 2
77;=
8
=O(h;),
7); = ai ux,i - (ku')i-1/2 = O(h7).