A practical guide to pseudospectral methods

Partial differential equations arise in almost all areas of science, engineering, modeling, and forecasting. During the last two decades, pseudospectral methods have emerged as successful, and often superior, alternatives to better-known computational procedures - such as finite difference and finite element methods - in several key application areas. These areas include computational fluid dynamics, wave motion, and weather forecasting. This book explains how, when, and why this pseudospectral approach works. In order to make the subject accessible to students as well as to researchers and…