in this paper, a chebyshev finite difference method has been proposed in order to solvenonlinear two-point boundary value problems for second order nonlinear differentialequations. a problem arising from chemical reactor theory is then considered. the approachconsists of reducing the problem to a set of algebraic equations. this method can be regardedas a non-uniform finite difference scheme. t...

in this paper, boundary value problems of fractional order are converted into an optimal control problems. then an approximate solution is constructed from translations and dilations of a b-spline function such that the exact boundary conditions are satisfied. the fractional differential operators are taken in the riemann-liouville and caputo sense. several example are given and the optimal err...