A spectral solution of the RLW equation based on collocation method using Chebyshev polynomials as a basis for the approximate solution is proposed. Test problems, including the motion of a single solitary wave with different amplitudes are used to validate this algorithm which is found to be more accurate than previous ones. The interaction of solitary waves is used to discuss the effect of th...

A spectral collocation method based on rational interpolants and adaptive grid points is presented. The rational interpolants approximate analytic functions with exponential accuracy by using prescribed barycentric weights and transformed Chebyshev points. The locations of the grid points are adapted to singularities of the underlying solution, and the locations of these singularities are appro...

By exploiting conformal maps to vertically slit regions in the complex plane, a recently developed rational spectral method [27] is able to solve PDEs with interior layer-like behaviour using significantly fewer collocation points than traditional spectral methods. The conformal maps are chosen to ‘enlarge the region of analyticity’ in the solution: an idea which can be extended to other numeri...

The classical von Kármán equations governing the boundary layer flow induced by a rotating disk are solved using the spectral homotopy analysis method and a novel successive linearisation method. The methods combine nonperturbation techniques with the Chebyshev spectral collocation method, and this study seeks to show the accuracy and reliability of the two methods in finding solutions of nonli...

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...

A series of problems in different fields such as physics and chemistry are modeled by differential equations. Differential equations are divided into partial differential equations and ordinary differential equations which can be linear or nonlinear. One approach to solve those kinds of equations is using orthogonal functions into spectral methods. In this paper, we firstly describe Laguerre, H...

In this paper, we develop, analyze and test the Fourier spectral methods for solving the Degasperis–Procesi (DP) equation which contains nonlinear high order derivatives, and possibly discontinuous or sharp transition solutions. The L2 stability is obtained for general numerical solutions of the Fourier Galerkin method and Fourier collocation (pseudospectral) method. By applying the Gegenbauer ...