Legendre-Chebyshev pseudo-spectral method for the diffusion equation with non-classical boundary conditions

Abstract

The present paper is devoted to the numerical approximation for the diffusion equation subject to non-local boundary conditions. For the space discretization, we apply the Legendre-Chebyshev pseudospectral method, so that, the problem under consideration is reduced to a system of ODEs which can be solved by the second order Crank-Nicolson schema. Optimal error estimates for the semi-discrete scheme are derived in L2-norm. Numerical tests are included to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Keywords

• numerical solution
• pseudo-spectral method
• parabolic equation
• non-local boundary conditions
• error estimate
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