Alternative Legendre polynomials (ALPs) are used to approximate the solution of a class of nonlinear Volterra-Hammerstein integral equations. For this purpose, the operational matrices of integration and the product for ALPs are derived. Then, using the collocation method, the considered problem is reduced into a set of nonlinear algebraic equations. The error analysis of the method is given an...

A method is developed for solving bang-bang and singular optimal control problems using adaptive Legendre–Gauss–Radau collocation. The divided into several parts. First, a structure detection that identifies switch times in the analyzes corresponding switching function segments where solution either or singular. Second, after has been detected, domain decomposed multiple domains such multiple-d...

A research code has been written to solve an elliptic system of coupled nonlinear partial differential equations of conservation form on a rectangularly shaped three-dimensional domain. The code uses the method of collocation of Gauss points with tricubic Hermite piecewise continuous polynomial basis functions. The system of equations is solved by iteration. The system of nonlinear equations is...

In this paper, a super spectral viscosity method using the Chebyshev differential operator of high order Ds = ( √ 1− x2∂x) is developed for nonlinear conservation laws. The boundary conditions are treated by a penalty method. Compared with the second-order spectral viscosity method, the super one is much weaker while still guaranteeing the convergence of the bounded solution of the Chebyshev–Ga...

In this paper, we apply Legendre wavelet collocation method to obtain the approximate solution of nonlinear Stratonovich Volterra integral equations. The main advantage of this method is that Legendre wavelet has orthogonality property and therefore coefficients of expansion are easily calculated. By using this method, the solution of nonlinear Stratonovich Volterra integral equation reduces to...

A Legendre spectral collocation method is presented for the solution of the biharmonic Dirichlet problem on a square. The solution and its Laplacian are approximated using the set of basis functions suggested by Shen, which are linear combinations of Legendre polynomials. A Schur complement approach is used to reduce the resulting linear system to one involving the approximation of the Laplacia...

The Gauss-Kronrod quadrature scheme, which is based on the zeros of Legendre polynomials and Stieltjes polynomials, is the standard method for automatic numerical integration in mathematical software libraries. For a long time, very little was known about the error of the Gauss-Kronrod scheme. An essential progress was made only recently, based on new bounds and as-ymptotic properties for the S...

Tensor products of Gauss-Lobatto quadrature points are frequently used as collocation points in spectral element methods. Unfortunately, it is not known if Gauss-Lobatto points exist in non-tensor-product domains like the simplex. In this work, we show that the n-dimensional tensor-product of Gauss-Lobatto quadrature points are also Fekete points. This suggests a way to generalize spectral meth...

An accurate and efficient solution method using spectral collocation method with domain decomposition is proposed for computing optical waveguides with discontinuous refractive index profiles. The use of domain decomposition divides the usual single domain into a few subdomains at the interfaces of discontinuous refractive index profiles. Each subdomain can be expanded by a suitable set of orth...