Spectral collocation on triangular elements (Q1268371)

Poisson problems on a segment of the unit disc and on triangles are considered. Using polar coordinates, the triangular elements are mapped on rectangular domains, where standard spectral collocation schemes are available. The authors employs a Chebyshev collocation method with Gauss-Labatto nodes in the polar coordinates. Both for smooth and singular solutions the expected high spectral accuracy is achieved. Further, it is shown that finite difference preconditioning can be successfully applied in order to construct an efficient iterative solver. Finally, a domain decomposition technique is applied to the patching of a rectangular and a triangular element.