The origin and nature of spurious eigenvalues in the spectral tau method

DOI10.1006/JCPH.1998.6095zbMath0924.65077OpenAlexW2010799088MaRDI QIDQ1285842

Paul T. Dawkins, Steven R. Dunbar, Rod W. Douglass

Publication date: 20 June 1999

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1006/jcph.1998.6095

zbMATH Keywords

generalized eigenvalue problemorthogonal functionsseries expansionsspurious eigenvaluesChebyshev-tau spectral methodLanczos tau method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz, Galerkin and collocation methods for ordinary differential equations (65L60) Numerical solution of boundary value problems involving ordinary differential equations (65L10) Linear boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations (34B05) Numerical solution of eigenvalue problems involving ordinary differential equations (65L15) Eigenvalues, estimation of eigenvalues, upper and lower bounds of ordinary differential operators (34L15)

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