Resumen: Numerical approximations to the solutions of three different problem classes of singularly perturbed parabolic reaction–diffusion problems, each with a discontinuity in the boundary-initial data, are generated. For each problem class, an analytical function associated with the discontinuity in the data, is identified. Parameter-uniform numerical approximations to the difference between the analytical function and the solution of the singularly perturbed problem are generated using piecewise-uniform Shishkin meshes. Numerical results are given to illustrate all the theoretical error bounds established in the paper. Idioma: Inglés DOI: 10.1016/j.cam.2019.112638 Año: 2020 Publicado en: Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 370 (2020), 112638 [28 pp.] ISSN: 0377-0427 Factor impacto JCR: 2.621 (2020) Categ. JCR: MATHEMATICS, APPLIED rank: 36 / 265 = 0.136 (2020) - Q1 - T1 Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.876 - Computational Mathematics (Q2) - Applied Mathematics (Q2)