Piecewise Hermite cubics have been widely used in a variety of ways for solving partial differential equations. For a number of these techniques, knowledge about the Hermite cubic collocation approximations to the spectrum of the Laplace operator is often very useful, for error analysis and, a fortiori, possible iteration parameters. To this end, we givc here explicit closed-form expressions fo...

When one approximates elliptic equations by the spectral collocation method on the Chebyshev-Gauss-Lobatto (CGL) grid, the resulting coefficient matrix is dense and illconditioned. It is known that a good preconditioner, in the sense that the preconditioned system becomes well conditioned, can be constructed with finite difference on the CGL grid. However, there is a lack of an efficient solver...

An asymptotic error expansion for Gauss-Legendre quadrature is derived for an integrand with an endpoint singularity. It permits convergence acceleration by extrapolation.

We propose a Legendre-Petrov-Galerkin Chebyshev spectral collocation method for initial value problems (IVPs) of second-order nonlinear ordinary differential equations (ODEs). The is applied to time discretization and the term dealt with method. scheme results in simple algebraic system by choosing appropriate basis functions. Optimal error estimates $ L^2 $-norm single multiple interval method...