The origin and nature of spurious eigenvalues in the spectral Tau method

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 441-462

  Dawkins, Paul T ^a   Dunbar, Steven R ^b   Douglass, Rod W ^c  

^a LAMAR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalized eigenvalue problems; Spectral methods, Chebyshev tau method; Spurious eigenvlaues

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS;

CHEBYSHEV; CHEBYSHEV TAU METHODS; EIGEN-VALUE; GENERALIZED EIGENVALUE PROBLEMS; REAL PART; SPECTRAL METHOD, CHEBYSHEV-TAU METHOD; SPECTRAL METHODS; SPURIOUS EIGENVALUE; SPURIOUS EIGENVLAUES; TAU METHOD;

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS;

EID: 0001039703     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1998.6095     Document Type: Article

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