Event
Alex Townsend (Cornell University)
Monday, March 16, 2020 16:00to17:00
Burnside Hall
Room 1104, 805 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0B9, CA
Title: The ultraspherical spectral method
Abstract: Pseudospectral methods, based on high degree polynomials, have spectral accuracy when solving differential equations but typically lead to dense and ill-conditioned matrices. The ultraspherical spectral method is a numerical technique to solve ordinary and partial differential equations, leading to almost banded well-conditioned linear systems while maintaining spectral accuracy. In this talk, we introduce the ultraspherical spectral method and develop it into a spectral element method using a modification to a hierarchical Poincaré-Steklov domain decomposition method.