This volume is the Proceedings of the Workshop on Analytical and Computational Methods for Convection-Dominated and Singularly Perturbed Problems, which took place in Lozenetz, Bulgaria, 27-31 August 1998. The workshop attracted about 50 participants from 12 countries. The volume includes 13 invited lectures and 19 contributed papers presented at the workshop and thus gives an overview of the latest developments in both the theory and applications of advanced numerical methods to problems having boundary and interior layers. There was an emphasis on experiences from the numerical analysis of such problems and on theoretical developments. The aim of the workshop was to provide an opportunity for scientists from the East and the West, who develop robust methods for singularly perturbed and related problems and also who apply these methods to real-life problems, to discuss recent achievements in this area and to exchange ideas with a view of possible research co-operation.

Since the first edition of this book, the literature on fitted mesh methods for singularly perturbed problems has expanded significantly. Over the intervening years, fitted meshes have been shown to be effective for an extensive set of singularly perturbed partial differential equations. In the revised version of this book, the reader will find an introduction to the basic theory associated with fitted numerical methods for singularly perturbed differential equations. Fitted mesh methods focus on the appropriate distribution of the mesh points for singularly perturbed problems. The global errors in the numerical approximations are measured in the pointwise maximum norm. The fitted mesh algorithm is particularly simple to implement in practice, but the theory of why these numerical methods work is far from simple. This book can be used as an introductory text to the theory underpinning fitted mesh methods.