Efficient Spectral Sparse Grid Methods and Applications to High-Dimensional Elliptic Problems

  • Authors:
  • Jie Shen;Haijun Yu

  • Affiliations:
  • shen7@purdue.edu;hyu@lsec.cc.ac.cn

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We develop in this paper some efficient algorithms which are essential to implementations of spectral methods on the sparse grid by Smolyak's construction based on a nested quadrature. More precisely, we develop a fast algorithm for the discrete transform between the values at the sparse grid and the coefficients of expansion in a hierarchical basis; and by using the aforementioned fast transform, we construct two very efficient sparse spectral-Galerkin methods for a model elliptic equation. In particular, the Chebyshev-Legendre-Galerkin method leads to a sparse matrix with a much lower number of nonzero elements than that of low-order sparse grid methods based on finite elements or wavelets, and can be efficiently solved by a suitable sparse solver. Ample numerical results are presented to demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of our algorithms.