A Galerkin approximation for the initial-value problem for linear second- order differential equations

DOI10.1016/0096-3003(84)90010-9MaRDI QIDQ759456zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John Gregory, Marvin Zeman

Publication date 1984

Published in Applied Mathematics and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0096-3003(84)90010-9

zbMATH Keywords

comparison of methodscontrol-theory problemsCowell's methoddirect methodseigenvalue problemsGalerkin methodlinear second-order differential equationsRunge-Kutta methodsspline hat functionsStörmer's methodtwo-step difference scheme

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear ordinary differential equations and systems (34A30) Numerical methods for initial value problems involving ordinary differential equations (65L05)

Review text

An algorithm is given for the numerical solution of the problem mentioned in the title and spline hat functions form the approximating basis. The algorithm yields a direct method for solving second-order linear differential equations (as opposed to solving a first-order system) and compares favorably with other direct methods such as Störmer's method and Cowell's method (e.g. \textit{P. Henrici} [Discrete variable methods in ordinary differential equations (1962; Zbl 0112.349)]). This method can be applied to a wide variety of problems such as eigenvalue problems, control-theory problems, etc., and it is comparable to Runge-Kutta methods with half the function evaluations.

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