Abstract:
It is well known that, for nonrigid boundary value problems, the collocation method basing on the use of cubic splines gives schemata up to fourth order precision with respect to grid size $h$. We show that collocation schemata of fourth order, converging uniformly with respect to a small parameter, can be constructed for singularly perturbed problems as well. For their construction, we use N. S. Bakhvalov optimal grids and cubic splines of mixed defect.