Spectral Methods

This book provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date theory and state-of-the-art algorithms of spectral methods. It is written by the authors who pioneered the subject and who introduced spectral methods as a mainstream tool for scientific and engineering computation.

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Since the publication of "Spectral Methods in Fluid Dynamics" 1988, spectral methods have become firmly established as a mainstream tool for scientific and engineering computation. The authors of that book have incorporated into this new edition the many improvements in the algorithms and the theory of spectral methods that have been made since then. This latest book retains the tight integration between the theoretical and practical aspects of spectral methods, and the chapters are enhanced with material on the Galerkin with numerical integration version of spectral methods. The discussion of direct and iterative solution methods is also greatly expanded.