TY - JOUR T1 - A Diagonalized Legendre Rational Spectral Method for Problems on the Whole Line AU - Yu , Xuhong AU - Zhao , Yunge AU - Wang , Zhongqing JO - Journal of Mathematical Study VL - 2 SP - 196 EP - 213 PY - 2018 DA - 2018/06 SN - 51 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/jms.v51n2.18.05 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jms/12463.html KW - Legendre rational spectral method, Sobolev orthogonal functions, elliptic boundary value problems, heat equation, numerical results. AB -
A diagonalized Legendre rational spectral method for solving second and fourth order differential equations are proposed. Some Fourier-like Sobolev orthogonal basis functions are constructed which lead to the diagonalization of discrete systems. Accordingly, both the exact solutions and the approximate solutions can be represented as infinite and truncated Fourier series. Numerical results demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach.