The authors who pioneered Spectral Methods in Fluid Dynamics
Calculations in 1988 have now incorporated the many improvements in the
algorithms and the theory of spectral methods made since then into this
new edition. This improved book retains the tight integration between
the theoretical and practical aspects of spectral methods, and the
chapters are enhanced with material on the Galerkin with numerical
integration version of spectral methods. The discussion of direct and
iterative solution methods is also greatly expanded, as are the set of
numerical examples that illustrate the key properties of the various
types of spectral approximations and the solution algorithms. In short,
this book provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date theory and
state-of-the-art algorithms of spectral methods written by the authors
who pioneered the subject.