Affiliation: | Mathematics Department, Imperial College, London, England Mathematics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, U.S.A. |
Abstract: | The recursive formulation of the Tau Method (see [1,2]) is used to simulate the method of Galerkin. As a result of this, a new recursive formulation of Galerkin's Method is deduced. Furthermore, it is shown that the Galerkin's Method is a special form of a Tau Method with a weighted polynomial basis. Examples of application to the numerical approximation of linear and nonlinear partial differential equations, defined on bounded and unbounded domains, are also given. |