Improvements in spectral collocation discretization through a multiple domain technique (Q1096499)

The present global flux balance spectral multi-domain method has demonstrated maintenance of exponential-order accuracy herein on a variety of advection- and diffusion-dominated test problems. Extremely large differences in discretization across an interface, through domain size, number of points and stretchings, have been shown to not disrupt this property of the present method. Additionally, this technique can be used to isolate certain types of coefficient, mapping or boundary condition discontinuities. A further application of the present method lies in implementation of spectral methods on parallel-processing computers, where the global nature of collocation methods have limited their effectiveness. The solution algorithm described is well-suited for machines with only nearest-neighbor connections between processing units.