FEM1D_SPECTRAL_NUMERIC
Spectral Finite Element Method for 1D problem, Numeric Integration


FEM1D_SPECTRAL_NUMERIC is a MATLAB program which applies the spectral finite element method to solve the problem u'' = - pi^2 sin(x) over [-1,+1] with zero boundary conditions, using as basis elements the functions x^n*(x-1)*(x+1), and carrying out the integration numerically using MATLAB's quad() function, by Miro Stoyanov.

This function solves the problem u'' = - pi^2 * sin( pi * x ) for x in (-1,1), with boundary conditions u(-1) = u(1) = 0.

This problem has exact solution u(x) = sin(pi*x).

We use the spectral finite element method. We assume that the solution can be written in terms of polynomials:

        phi_1 = x^0     * (x-1)*(x+1),
        phi_2 = x^1     * (x-1)*(x+1)
        ...
        phi_i = x^(i-1) * (x-1)*(x+1) ...
      
For this particular problem, the solution is an odd function, so only every other basis function will actually be useful.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

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Author:

Miro Stoyanov

Reference:

  1. Gilbert Strang, George Fix,
    An Analysis of the Finite Element Method,
    Cambridge, 1973,
    ISBN: 096140888X,
    LC: TA335.S77.

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Last revised on 06 October 2011.