An effective numerical method based on Legendre polynomials is proposed for the solution of a class of variational problems with suitable boundary conditions. The Ritz spectral method is used for finding the approximate solution of the problem. By utilizing the Ritz method, the given nonlinear variational problem reduces to the problem of solving a system of algebraic equations. The advantage o...

Spectral and pseudo spectral methods for advection equations are investigated. A basic framework is given which allows the application of techniques used in finite element analysis to spectral methods with trigonometric polynomials. Error estimates for semidiscrete spectral and pseudo spectral as well as fully discrete explicit pseudo spectral methods are given. The approximation schemes are sh...

By the semi-inverse method, a variational principle is obtained for the Lane–Emden equation, which gives much numerical convenience when applying finite element methods or Ritz method. 2002 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.

In this Letter, a (2 + 1)-dimensional soliton equation is studied by He’s variational approach. The solitary solutions are obtained using the Ritz method.

One application of harmonic Ritz values is to approximate, with a projection method, the interior eigenvalues of a matrix A while avoiding the explicit use of the inverse A. In this context, harmonic Ritz values are commonly derived from a Petrov-Galerkin condition for the residual of a vector from the test space. In this paper, we investigate harmonic Ritz values from a slightly different pers...

The so-called Ritz–Galerkin method is one of the most fundamental tools of modern computing. Its origins lie in Hilbert’s “direct” approach to the variational calculus of Euler– Lagrange and in the thesis of Walther Ritz, who died 100 years ago at the age of 31 after a long battle with tuberculosis. The thesis was submitted in 1902 in Göttingen, during a period of dramatic developments in physi...

Rayleigh–Ritz eigenvalue estimates for Hermitian matrices obey Cauchy interlacing, which has helpful implications for theory, applications, and algorithms. In contrast, few results about the Ritz values of non-Hermitian matrices are known, beyond their containment within the numerical range. To show that such Ritz values enjoy considerable structure, we establish regions within the numerical ra...