A modified Chebyshev pseudospectral DD algorithm for the GBH equation

In this paper, a Chebyshev spectral collocation domain decomposition (DD) semidiscretization by using a grid mapping, derived by Kosloff and Tal-Ezer in space is applied to the numerical solution of the generalized Burger’s–Huxley (GBH) equation. To reduce roundoff error in computing derivatives we use the above mentioned grid mapping. In this work, we compose the Chebyshev spectral collocation domain decomposition and Kosloff and Tal-Ezer grid mapping, elaborately. Firstly, the theory of application of the Chebyshev spectral collocation method with grid mapping and DD on the GBH equation is presented. This method yields a system of ordinary differential algebraic equations (DAEs). Secondly, we use a fourth order Runge–Kutta formula for the numerical integration of the system of DAEs. Application of this modified method to the GBH equation show that this method (M-DD) is faster and more accurate than the standard Chebyshev spectral collocation DD (S-DD) method. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.