N.A. Endrie - Department of Mathematics,College of Natural and Computational Science, Arba Minch University, Arba Minch, Ethiopia.
G.F. Duressa - Department of Mathematics, College of Natural and Computational Science, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia.

This article presents a parameter uniform convergence numerical scheme for solving time fractional order singularly perturbed parabolic convection-diffusion differential equations with a delay. We give a priori bounds on the exact solution and its derivatives obtained through the problem’s asymp-totic analysis. The Euler’s method on a uniform mesh in the time direction and the extended cubic B-spline method with a fitted operator on a uniform mesh in the spatial direction is used to discretize the problem. The fitting factor is introduced for the term containing the singular perturbation pa-rameter, and it is obtained from the zeroth-order asymptotic expansion of the exact solution. The ordinary B-splines are extended into the extended B-splines. Utilizing the optimization technique, the value of μ (free param-eter, when the free parameter μ tends to zero the extended cubic B-spline reduced to convectional cubic B-spline functions) is determined. It is also demonstrated that this method is better than some existing methods in the literature.

Singularly perturbed problem, fractional derivative, artificial viscosity, delay differential equation