Chebyshev pseudospectral solution of advection-diffusion equations with mapped finite difference preconditioning

Abstract

A new Chebyshev pseudo-spectral algorithm with finite difference preconditioning is proposed for the solution of advection-diffusion equations, A mapping technique is introduced which allows good convergence for any Peclet number both for one-dimensional and two-dimensional problems. Numerical results show that first-order Lagrange polynomials are the optimal mapping procedure for the one-dimensional problem and second-order Lagrange polynomials, for the two-dimensional one.