Electron. J. Diff. Equ., Vol. 2016 (2016), No. 68, pp. 1-11.

Numerical solutions to heat equations via the spectral method

Mohamed Abdelwahed, Nejmeddine Chorfi, Vicentiu Radulescu

Abstract:
In this article we study a discretized version of the heat equation. For the time semi-discrete problem, we use an implicit Euler's scheme, and for the space discretization we used the spectral method. We estimate for the error between the exact and approximated discrete solutions, and illustrate the features of our method with numerical examples.

Submitted December 10, 2015. Published March 11, 2016.
Math Subject Classifications: 35K05, 35K20, 58J35, 65M70.
Key Words: Heat equation; Euler's method; spectral discretization; error estimate.

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Mohamed Abdelwahed
Department of Mathematics, College of Sciences
King Saud University
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
email: mabdelwahed@ksu.edu.sa
Nejmeddine Chorfi
Department of Mathematics, College of Sciences
King Saud University
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
email: nchorfi@ksu.edu.sa
Vicentiu Radulescu
Institute of Mathematics "Simion Stoilow"
of the Romanian Academy
P.O. Box 1-764, 014700 Bucharest, Romania
email: vicentiu.radulescu@imar.ro

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