# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

October  2016, 36(10): 5423-5443. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2016039

## Continuous Galerkin methods on quasi-geometric meshes for delay differential equations of pantograph type

 1 Beijing Institute for Scientific and Engineering Computing, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China, China 2 Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Received  September 2015 Revised  December 2015 Published  July 2016

We analyze the optimal global and local convergence properties of continuous Galerkin (CG) solutions on quasi-geometric meshes for delay differential equations with proportional delay. It is shown that with this type of meshes the attainable order of nodal superconvergence of CG solutions is higher than of the one for uniform meshes. The theoretical results are illustrated by a broad range of numerical examples.
Citation: Qiumei Huang, Xiuxiu Xu, Hermann Brunner. Continuous Galerkin methods on quasi-geometric meshes for delay differential equations of pantograph type. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems, 2016, 36 (10) : 5423-5443. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2016039
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