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Efficient spectral-Galerkin algorithms for direct solution of the integrated forms of second-order equations using ultraspherical polynomials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

E. H. Doha and
A. H. Bhrawy
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Abstract

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It is well known that spectral methods (tau, Galerkin, collocation) have a condition number of O(N4) where N is the number of retained modes of polynomial approximations. This paper presents some efficient spectral algorithms, which have a condition number of O(N2), based on the ultraspherical-Galerkin methods for the integrated forms of second-order elliptic equations in one and two space variables. The key to the efficiency of these algorithms is to construct appropriate base functions, which lead to systems with specially structured matrices that can be efficiently inverted. The complexities of the algorithms are a small multiple of Nd+1 operations for a d-dimensional domain with (N – 1)d unknowns, while the convergence rates of the algorithms are exponentials with smooth solutions.

Keywords

spectral-Galerkin methodultraspherical polynomialsPoisson and Helmholtz equations.

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Research Article
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The ANZIAM Journal , Volume 48 , Issue 3 , January 2007, pp. 361 - 386
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 2007

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