TY - JOUR T1 - A Mesh Adaptation Method for 1D-Boundary Layer Problems JO - International Journal of Numerical Analysis Modeling Series B VL - 4 SP - 408 EP - 428 PY - 2012 DA - 2012/03 SN - 3 DO - http://doi.org/ UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/ijnamb/292.html KW - hierarchical error estimation KW - mesh adaptation KW - singular perturbation KW - boundary layer problems AB - We present a one-dimensional version of a general mesh adaptation technique developed in [1, 2] which is valid for two and three-dimensional problems. The simplicity of the one-dimensional case allows to detail all the necessary steps with very simple computations. We show how the error can be estimated on a piecewise finite element of degree k and how this information can be used to modify the grid using local mesh operations: element division, node elimination and node displacement. Finally, we apply the whole strategy to many challenging singularly perturbed boundary value problems where the one-dimensional setting allows to push the adaptation method to its limits.