This paper proposes a direct approach for solving optimal control problems. The time domain is divided into multiple subdomains, and a Lagrange interpolating polynomial using the Legendre–Gauss– Lobatto points is used to approximate the states and controls. The state equations are enforced at the Legendre–Gauss–Lobatto nodes in a nonlinear programming implementation by partial Gauss–Lobatto qua...

We derive explicitly the weights and the nodes of the generalized Gauss-Radau and Gauss-Lobatto quadratures with Jacobi weight functions. AMS subject classification: 65D32, 65D30, 41A55.

In this paper, Lagrange interpolation in Chebyshev-Gauss-Lobatto nodes is used to develop a procedure for finding discrete and continuous approximate solutions of a singular boundary value problem. At first, a continuous time optimization problem related to the original singular boundary value problem is proposed. Then, using the Chebyshev- Gauss-Lobatto nodes, we convert the continuous time op...

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 this paper, we develop a Jacobi-Gauss-Lobatto collocation method for solving the nonlinear fractional Langevin equation with three-point boundary conditions. The fractional derivative is described in the Caputo sense. The shifted Jacobi-Gauss-Lobatto points are used as collocation nodes. The main characteristic behind the Jacobi-Gauss-Lobatto collocation approach is that it reduces such a pr...

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...

We derive in this paper the asymptotic estimates of the nodes and weights of the Gauss-Lobatto-Legendre-Birkhoff (GLLB) quadrature formula, and obtain optimal error estimates for the associated GLLB interpolation in Jacobi weighted Sobolev spaces. We also present a useroriented implementation of the pseudospectral methods based on the GLLB quadrature nodes for Neumann problems. This approach al...

It has recently been shown that the Lebesgue constant for Berrut’s rational interpolant at equidistant nodes grows logarithmically in the number of interpolation nodes. In this paper we show that the same holds for a very general class of well-spaced nodes and essentially any distribution of nodes that satisfy a certain regularity condition, including Chebyshev–Gauss–Lobatto nodes as well as ex...

Tensor products of Gauss-Lobatto quadrature points are frequently used as collocation points in spectral element methods. Unfortunately, it is not known if Gauss-Lobatto points exist in non-tensor-product domains like the simplex. In this work, we show that the n-dimensional tensor-product of Gauss-Lobatto quadrature points are also Fekete points. This suggests a way to generalize spectral meth...