Mathematics – Numerical Analysis
Scientific paper
2012-02-07
Mathematics
Numerical Analysis
Scientific paper
A novel spectral method is developed for the direct solution of linear ordinary differential equations with variable coefficients. The method leads to matrices which are almost banded, and a numerical solver is presented that takes O(m^2n) operations, where m is the number of Chebyshev points needed to resolve the coefficients of the differential operator and n is the number of Chebyshev points needed to resolve the solution to the differential equation. We prove stability of the method by relating it to a diagonally preconditioned system which has a bounded condition number, in a suitable norm. For Dirichlet boundary conditions, this reduces to stability in the standard 2-norm.
Olver Sheehan
Townsend A. A.
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