Research Colloquium — Thursday, March 2, 2006

"Superconvergence of Spectral Collocation/p-Version Methods in 1-D"

Prof. Zhimin Zhang
Department of Mathematics
Wayne State University



Superconvergence phenomenon of the Legendre spectral collocation method and the p-version finite element method is discussed under the one dimensional setting. For a class of functions that satisfy a certain regularity condition on a bounded domain, it is demonstrated, both theoretically and numerically, that the optimal convergent rate is super-geometric. Furthermore, at proper Gaussian points or Lobatto points, the rate of convergence may gain one or two orders of the polynomial degree.



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Room: 126 Clements Hall
Coffee: 3:30 pm – 3:45 pm
Colloquium: 3:45 pm – 4:45 pm