A p-type spectral-element method using prolate spheroidal wave functions (PSWFs) as basis functions, termed as the prolate-element method, is developed for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on the sphere. The gridding on the sphere is based on a projection of the prolate-Gauss-Lobatto points by using the cube-sphere transform, which is free of singularity and leads to quasi-uniform ...

We address quadrature-based approximations of the bilinear inverse form u>A−1u, where A is a real symmetric positive definite matrix, and analyze properties of the Gauss, Gauss-Radau, and Gauss-Lobatto quadrature. In particular, we establish monotonicity of the bounds given by these quadrature rules, compare the tightness of these bounds, and derive associated convergence rates. To our knowledg...

Recently, Gautschi introduced so-called generalized Gauss-Radau and Gauss-Lobatto formulae which are quadrature formulae of Gaussian type involving not only the values but also the derivatives of the function at the endpoints. In the present note we show the positivity of the corresponding weights; this positivity has been conjectured already by Gautschi. As a consequence, we establish several ...

This paper deals with Vandermonde matrices Vn whose nodes are the Gauss–Lobatto Chebyshev nodes, also called extrema Chebyshev nodes. We give an analytic factorization and explicit formula for the entries of their inverse, and explore its computational issues. We also give asymptotic estimates of the Frobenius norm of both Vn and its inverse and present an explicit formula for the determinant o...

Abstract. This paper pr esents an energ y-optimal trajectory planning method fo r spacecraft fo rmation reconfiguration in deep space environment using continuous lo w-thrust propulsion system. First, we emplo y the Legendre pseudospectral method (LPM) to transform the optimal reconfiguration problem to a parameter optimization nonlinear programming (NLP) problem. Then, to avoid the computation...

In this article, it is shown that under certain conditions, the spectral difference (SD) method is independent of the position of the solution points. This greatly simplifies the design of such schemes, and it also offers the possibility of a significant increase in the efficiency of the method. Furthermore, an accuracy and stability study, based on wave propagation analysis, is presented for s...

Recently, the Legendre pseudospectral (PS) method migrated from theory to flight application onboard the International Space Station for performing a finite-horizon, zeropropellant maneuver. A small technical modification to the Legendre PS method is necessary to manage the limiting conditions at infinity for infinite-horizon optimal control problems. Motivated by these technicalities, the conc...

The main purpose of our work is to provide Fekete and Lebesgue points on three basic bidimensional compact sets, the simplex, the square, and the disk, by solving numerically the corresponding large-scale nonlinear optimization problems up to degree n = 18. Our results reach and often improve those previously known [1], [3]. In the case of the simplex, due to their relevance in developing spect...