Legendre-Gauss-Radau Spectral Collocation Method for Nonlinear Second-Order Initial Value Problems with Applications to Wave Equations

Legendre-Gauss-Radau Spectral Collocation Method for Nonlinear Second-Order Initial Value Problems with Applications to Wave Equations

Year:    2024

Author:    Lina Wang, Qian Tong, Lijun Yi, Mingzhu Zhang

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 42 (2024), Iss. 1 : pp. 217–247

Abstract

We propose and analyze a single-interval Legendre-Gauss-Radau (LGR) spectral collocation method for nonlinear second-order initial value problems of ordinary differential equations. We design an efficient iterative algorithm and prove spectral convergence for the single-interval LGR collocation method. For more effective implementation, we propose a multi-interval LGR spectral collocation scheme, which provides us great flexibility with respect to the local time steps and local approximation degrees. Moreover, we combine the multi-interval LGR collocation method in time with the Legendre-Gauss-Lobatto collocation method in space to obtain a space-time spectral collocation approximation for nonlinear second-order evolution equations. Numerical results show that the proposed methods have high accuracy and excellent long-time stability. Numerical comparison between our methods and several commonly used methods are also provided.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/jcm.2203-m2021-0244

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 42 (2024), Iss. 1 : pp. 217–247

Published online:    2024-01

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Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    31

Keywords:    Legendre-Gauss-Radau collocation method Second-order initial value problem Spectral convergence Wave equation.

Author Details

Lina Wang

Qian Tong

Lijun Yi

Mingzhu Zhang