AN EFFICIENT NUMERICAL METHOD BASED ON LEGENDRE-GALERKIN APPROXIMATION FOR THE STEKLOV EIGENVALUE PROBLEM IN SPHERICAL DOMAIN

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<abstract> We present in this paper an efficient numerical method based on Legendre-Galerkin approximation for the Steklov eigenvalue problem in spherical domain. Firstly, by means of spherical coordinate transformation and spherical harmonic expansion, the original problem is reduced to a sequence of equivalent one-dimensional eigenvalue problems that can be solved individually in parallel. Through the introduction of the appropriate weighted Sobolev spaces, the weak form and corresponding discrete scheme are established for each one-dimensional eigenvalue problem. Then from the approximate property of orthogonal polynomials in the weighted Sobolev spaces, we prove the error estimates of approximate eigenvalues for each one dimensional eigenvalue problem. Finally, some numerical examples are provided to illustrate the validity of our algorithms. </abstract>