Tau spectral methods and Adomian’s decomposition can be fruitfully combined to quickly approximate the analytical solution of any time-dependent partial differential equation with boundary conditions defined on the four sides of a rectangle. In this work, combinations of Legendre polynomials have been used to generate orthogonal two-dimensional polynomials on a rectangular domain. The time evol...

In this paper we propose a framework, called mixtures of truncated basis functions (MoTBFs), for representing general hybrid Bayesian networks. The proposed framework generalizes both the mixture of truncated exponentials (MTEs) framework and the mixture of polynomials (MoPs) framework. Similar to MTEs and MoPs, MoTBFs are defined so that the potentials are closed under combination and marginal...

Burgers’ equation with uncertain initial and boundary conditions is approximated using a polynomial chaos expansion approach where the solution is represented as a series of stochastic, orthogonal polynomials. Even though the analytical solution is smooth, a number of discontinuities emerge in the truncated system. The solution is highly sensitive to the propagation speed of these discontinuiti...

We report on a computation of congruent numbers, which subject to the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture is an accurate list up to 10. The computation involves multiplying large theta series as per Tunnell (1983). The first method, which we describe in some detail, uses a multimodular disk based technique for multiplying polynomials out-of-core which minimises expensive disk access by keeping...