Convergence of the Finite Difference Scheme for a General Class of Multi-phase Obstacle-like problems

Avetik Arakelyan

Published 2016-08-07Version 1

In this work we prove convergence of the finite difference scheme for equations of stationary states of a general class of the spatial segregation of reaction-diffusion systems with $m\geq 2$ components. More precisely, we show that the numerical solution $u_h^l$, given by the difference scheme, converges to the $l^{th}$ component $u_l,$ when the mesh size $h$ tends to zero, provided $u_l\in C^2(\Omega),$ for every $l=1,2,\dots,m.$ In particular, our proof provides convergence of a difference scheme for the multi-phase obstacle problem.