Approximating the Derivatives of a Function Using Chebyshev-Gauss-Lobatto Points

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Consider the function defined by . Using the Chebyshev–Gauss–Lobatto points, it is possible to approximate the values of the two first derivatives of at these points.

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This Demonstration plots , , and , as well as the error made if the first- and second-order derivatives of are approximated using Chebyshev–Gauss–Lobatto points.

As you increase the number of interior points , you can see how the error (e.g., for given by ) becomes insignificant.

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Contributed by: Housam Binous, Brian G. Higgins, and Ahmed Bellagi (March 2013)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA


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In the discrete Chebyshev–Gauss–Lobatto case, the interior points are given by . These points are the extremums of the Chebyshev polynomial of the first kind .

The Chebyshev derivative matrix at the quadrature points , , is given by

, , for , and for , and ,

where for and .

The matrix is then used as follows: and , where is a vector formed by evaluating at , , and and are the approximations of and at the .

References

[1] P. Moin, Fundamentals of Engineering Numerical Analysis, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

[2] S. Biringen and C-Y. Chow, An Introduction to Computational Fluid Mechanics by Example, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2011.



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