Solutions of a boundary value problem for the Korteweg–de Vries equation are approximated numerically using a finite-difference method, and a collocation method based on Chebyshev polynomials. The performance of the two methods is compared using exact solutions that are exponentially small at the boundaries. The Chebyshev method is found to be more efficient. © 2009 IMACS. Published by Elsevier...

in this paper, a chebyshev finite difference method has been proposed in order to solvenonlinear two-point boundary value problems for second order nonlinear differentialequations. a problem arising from chemical reactor theory is then considered. the approachconsists of reducing the problem to a set of algebraic equations. this method can be regardedas a non-uniform finite difference scheme. t...

in chemical engineering, several processes are represented by singular boundary value problems. in general, classical numerical methods fail to produce good approximations for the singular boundary value problems. in this paper, chebyshev finite difference (chfd) method and dtm-pad´e method, which is a combination of differential transform method (dtm) and pad´e approximant, are applied for sol...

In this paper, we discuss the numerical solution of space fractional diffusion equations. The method of solution is based on using Chebyshev polynomials and finite difference with Gauss-Lobatto points. The validity and reliability of this scheme is tested by its application in various space fractional diffusion equations. The obtained results reveal that the proposed method is more accurate and...

The Chebyshev finite difference method is applied to solve a system of two coupled nonlinear Lane-Emden differential equations arising in mathematical modelling of the excess sludge production from wastewater treatment plants. This method is based on a combination of the useful properties of Chebyshev polynomials approximation and finite difference method. The approach consists of reducing the ...

In this article a modification of the Chebyshev collocation method is applied to the solution of space fractional differential equations.The fractional derivative is considered in the Caputo sense.The finite difference scheme and Chebyshev collocation method are used .The numerical results obtained by this way have been compared with other methods.The results show the reliability and efficiency...

in this paper, a new numerical method for solving time-fractional diffusion equations is introduced. for this purpose, finite difference scheme for discretization in time and chebyshev collocation method is applied. also, to simplify application of the method, the matrix form of the suggested method is obtained. illustrative examples show that the proposed method is very efficient and accurate.

In this paper, a Chebyshev finite difference method has been proposed in order to solve nonlinear two-point boundary value problems for second order nonlinear differential equations. A problem arising from chemical reactor theory is then considered. The approach consists of reducing the problem to a set of algebraic equations. This method can be regarded as a non-uniform finite difference schem...

It is well known that the classical families of orthogonal polynomials are characterized as eigenfunctions of a second order linear differential/difference operator. In this paper we present a study of classical orthogonal polynomials in a more general context by using the differential (or difference) calculus and Operator Theory. In such a way we obtain a unified representation of them. Furthe...