Quartic-Spline Collocation Methods for Fourth-Order Two-Point Boundary Value Problems Ying Zhu Master of Science Graduate Department of Computer Science University of Toronto 2001 This thesis presents numerical methods for the solution of general linear fourth-order boundary value problems in one dimension. The methods are based on quartic splines, that is, piecewise quartic polynomials with C3...

We provide an in-depth study of pseudo-spectral numerical methods associated with modeling the self-assembly of molten mixed polymer brushes in the framework of self-consistent field theory (SCFT). SCFT of molten polymer brushes has proved numerically challenging in the past because of sharp features that arise in the self-consistent pressure field at the grafting surface due to the chain end t...

We present optimal error estimates for spectral Petrov–Galerkin methods and spectral collocation methods for linear fractional ordinary differential equations with initial value on a finite interval. We also develop Laguerre spectral Petrov–Galerkin methods and collocation methods for fractional equations on the half line. Numerical results confirm the error estimates.

We introduce isogeometric collocation methods based on generalized B-splines and we analyze their performance through numerical examples for univariate and multivariate scalarand vector-valued problems. In particular, advection–diffusion and linear elasticity model problems are addressed. The resultingmethod combines the favorable properties of isogeometric collocation and the geometrical and a...

We derive a posteriori error estimates, which exhibit optimal global order, for a class of time stepping methods of any order that include Runge–Kutta Collocation (RK-C) methods and the continuous Galerkin (cG) method for linear and nonlinear stiff ODEs and parabolic PDEs. The key ingredients in deriving these bounds are appropriate one-degree higher continuous reconstructions of the approximat...