Efficient Spectral-Galerkin Methods III: Polar and Cylindrical Geometries

Abstract. Efficient direct solvers based on the Chebyshev-Galerkin methods for second and fourth order equations are presented. They are based on appropriate base functions for the Galerkin formulation which lead to discrete systems with special structured matrices which can be efficiently inverted. Numerical results indicate that the direct solvers presented in this paper are significantly more accurate and efficient than that based on the Chebyshev-tau method.