Linß, Torsten; Madden, Niall A finite element analysis of a coupled system of singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion equations. (English) Zbl 1042.65065 Appl. Math. Comput. 148, No. 3, 869-880 (2004). This paper deals with the finite element method for two coupled singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion problems on general meshes. A general criterion that guarantees parameter uniform convergence in the energy norm is presented. The authors give interpolation and approximation error bounds for arbitrary meshes. The paper concludes with supporting numerical results. 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