A nonlinear Dirichlet boundary value problem is approximated by an orthogonal spline collocation scheme using piecewise Hermite bicubic functions. Existence, local uniqueness, and error analysis of the collocation solution and convergence of Newton’s method are studied. The mesh independence principle for the collocation problem is proved and used to develop an efficient multilevel solution met...

We study the computation of the orthogonal spline collocation solution of a linear Dirichlet boundary value problem with a nonselfadjoint or an indefinite operator of the form Lu = ∑ aij(x)uxixj + ∑ bi(x)uxi + c(x)u. We apply a preconditioned conjugate gradient method to the normal system of collocation equations with a preconditioner associated with a separable operator, and prove that the res...

In this paper, a symmetric Jacobi–Gauss collocation scheme is explored for both linear and nonlinear differential-algebraic equations (DAEs) of arbitrary index.After standard index reduction techniques, a type of Jacobi–Gauss collocation scheme with N knots is applied to differential part whereas another type of Jacobi–Gauss collocation scheme with N + 1 knots is applied to algebraic part of th...

The variation in the accuracy of the calculated natural frequencies of pre-twisted beams solved with spline collocation method is investigated in this study. The spline collocation method is used to formulate the eigenvalue problems of pre-twisted beams. Three types of boundary conditions are considered. Numerical results indicate that the accuracy of the calculated natural frequencies is signi...

Almost nothing decisive has been said about collocation methods for solving SPDEs. Among the best of such SPDEs the Burgers equation shows a prototypical model for describing the interaction between the reaction mechanism, convection effect, and diffusion transport. This paper discusses spectral collocation method to reduce stochastic Burgers equation to a system of stochastic ordinary differen...

We present Collocation Assistant, a prototype of a collocational aid designed to promote the collocational competence of learners of Japanese as a second language (JSL). Focusing on noun-verb constructions, the tool automatically flags possible collocation errors and suggests better collocations by using corrections extracted from a large annotated Japanese language learner corpus. Each suggest...

We develop and implement a collocation method to solve for an equilibrium in the dynamic legislative bargaining game of Duggan and Kalandrakis (2008). We formulate the collocation equations in a quasi-discrete version of the model, and we show that the collocation equations are locally Lipchitz continuous and directionally differentiable. In numerical experiments, we successfully implement a gl...

We develop an exponentially accurate fractional spectral collocation method for solving steady-state and time-dependent fractional PDEs (FPDEs). We first introduce a new family of interpolants, called fractional Lagrange interpolants, which satisfy the Kronecker delta property at collocation points. We perform such a construction following a spectral theory recently developed in [M. Zayernouri ...