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.

In this paper, we first introduce fractional integral spaces, which possess some features: (i) when 0 < α < 1, functions in these spaces are not required to be zero on the boundary; (ii)the tempered fractional operators are equivalent to the Riemann-Liouville operator in the sense of the norm. Spectral Galerkin and Petrov-Galerkin methods for tempered fractional advection problems and tempered ...

This paper analyzes a method for solving the thirdand fifth-order differential equations with constant coefficients using a Jacobi dual-Petrov–Galerkin method, which is more reasonable than the standard Galerkin one. The spatial approximation is based on Jacobi polynomials P (α,β) n with α, β ∈ (−1, ∞) and n is the polynomial degree. By choosing appropriate base functions, the resulting system ...

A Legendre and Chebyshev dual-Petrov–Galerkin method for hyperbolic equations is introduced and analyzed. The dual-Petrov– Galerkin method is based on a natural variational formulation for hyperbolic equations. Consequently, it enjoys some advantages which are not available for methods based on other formulations. More precisely, it is shown that (i) the dual-Petrov–Galerkin method is always st...

The purpose of this paper is two-fold. First, we develop the Petrov-Galerkin method and the iterated Petrov-Galerkin method for a class of nonlinear Hammerstein equations. Alpert [1] established a class of wavelet basis and applied it to approximate solutions of the Fredholm second kind integral equations by the Galerkin method. He then demonstrated an advantage of a wavelet basis application t...

numerical solutions obtained by the meshless local petrov–galerkin (mlpg) method are presented for two-dimensional steady-state heat conduction problems. the mlpg method is a truly meshless approach, and neither the nodal connectivity nor the background mesh is required for solving the initial-boundary-value problem. the penalty method is adopted to efficiently enforce the essential boundary co...

a truly meshless local petrov-galerkin (mlpg) method is developed for solving 3d elasto-static problems. using the general mlpg concept, this method is derived through the local weak forms of the equilibrium equations, by using test functions, namely, the heaviside function. the moving least squares (mls) are chosen to construct the shape functions, for the mlpg method. the penalty approximatio...

A comparison of Standard Galerkin, Petrov–Galerkin, and Fully-Upwind Galerkin methods for the simulation of two-phase flow in heterogeneous porous media is presented. On the basis of the coupled pressure–saturation equations, a generalized formulation for all three finite element methods is derived and analysed. For flow in homogeneous media, the Petrov–Galerkin method gives excellent results. ...

and Applied Analysis 3 nonlinear term is treated with the Chebyshev collocation method. The time discretization is a classical Crank-Nicholson-leap-frog scheme. Yuan and Wu 43 extended the Legendre dual-Petrov-Galerkin method proposed by Shen 44 , further developed by Yuan et al. 45 to general fifth-order KdV-type equations with various nonlinear terms. The main aim of this paper is to propose ...

This paper is an attempt in seeking a connection between the discontinuous Petrov– Galerkin method of Demkowicz and Gopalakrishnan [13,15] and the popular discontinuous Galerkin method. Starting from a discontinuous Petrov–Galerkin (DPG) method with zero enriched order we re-derive a large class of discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for first order hyperbolic and elliptic equations. The first ...