Numerical methods: Finite difference and spectral methods?

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hanson

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Jan 10, 2008

Hi all.
Can someone briefly explain the difference between finite difference methods and spectral methods? What are their principles?
And what is pseudo-spectral method?

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mda

Jan 10, 2008

Wikipedia has fairly good articles on this sort of thing...

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