A stair Laguerre pseudospectral method is proposed for numerical solutions of differential equations on the half line. Some approximation results are established. A stair Laguerre pseudospcetral scheme is constructed for a model problem. The convergence is proved. The numerical results show that this new method provides much more accurate numerical results than the standard Laguerre spectral me...

In this paper, we first compute the multiple non-trivial solutions of the Schrödinger equation on a square, by using the Liapunov-Schmidt reduction and symmetry-breaking bifurcation theory, combinedwith Legendre pseudospectralmethods. Then, starting from the non-trivial solution branches of the corresponding nonlinear problem, we further obtain the whole positive solution branch with D4 symmetr...

In this paper, a new stochastic operational matrix for the Legendre wavelets is presented and a general procedure for forming this matrix is given. A computational method based on this stochastic operational matrix is proposed for solving stochastic Itô-Voltera integral equations. Convergence and error analysis of the Legendre wavelets basis are investigated. To reveal the accuracy and efficien...

Poisson equation is frequently encountered in mathematical modeling for scientific and engineering applications. Fast Poisson numerical solvers for 2D and 3D problems are, thus, highly requested. In this paper, we consider solving the Poisson equation ∇2u = f(x, y) in the Cartesian domain Ω = [−1, 1] × [−1, 1], subject to all types of boundary conditions, discretized with the Chebyshev pseudosp...

We describe Fourier pseudospectral time-domain simulations, carried out in order to study light interacting with a metallic nanoscale object. The difficulty of using Fourier methods to accurately predict the electromagnetic scattering in such problems arises from the discontinuity in the dielectric function along the surface of the metallic object. Standard Fourier methods lead to oscillatory b...

In our previous work, we have shown that the pseudospectral method is an effective and flexible computation scheme for deriving pulses for optimal control of quantum systems. In practice, however, quantum systems often exhibit variation in the parameters that characterize the system dynamics. This leads us to consider the control of an ensemble (or continuum) of quantum systems indexed by the s...

In this paper, we consider the Legendre spectral Galerkin and Legendre spectral collocation methods to approximate the solution of Urysohn integral equation. We prove that the approximated solutions of the Legendre Galerkin and Legendre collocation methods converge to the exact solution with the same orders, O(n−r) in L2-norm and O(n 1 2 −r) in infinity norm, and the iterated Legendre Galerkin ...

The estimate derived by Henshaw, Kreiss, and Reyna for the smallest scale present in solutions of the two-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations is employed to obtain convergent pseudospectral approximations. These solutions are then compared with those obtained by a number of commonly used numerical methods. If the viscosity term is deleted and the energy in high wave numbers remov...