Sinc and the numerical solution of fifth-order boundary value problems (Q883966)

The present paper deals with numerical methods for fifth-order two-point boundary value problems on the unit interval. Problems of that type arise from modelling viscoelastic flows. The author introduces the new class of sinc-Galerkin methods, a special variant of spectral Galerkin schemes, to solve the boundary value problem. The suggested methods admit an elegant treatment of the boundary conditions. As usual, the corresponding integral relations are approximated by quadrature sums. Finally, some numerical computations display the power of the suggested method in comparison to standard schemes.