Efficient Spectral Collocation Algorithm for a Two-Sided Space Fractional Boussinesq Equation with Non-local Conditions

Abstract

A spectral shifted Legendre Gauss–Lobatto collocation method is developed and analyzed to solve numerically one-dimensional two-sided space fractional Boussinesq (SFB) equation with non-classical boundary conditions. The method depends basically on the fact that an expansion in a series of shifted Legendre polynomials $${P_{L,n}(x), \ x\in[0,L]}$$ is assumed, for the function and its space-fractional derivatives occurring in the two-sided SFB equation. The Legendre–Gauss–Lobatto quadrature rule is established to treat the non-local conservation conditions, and then the problem with its non-local conservation conditions is reduced to a system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) in time. Thereby, the expansion coefficients are then determined by reducing the two-sided SFB with its boundary and initial conditions to a system of ODEs for these coefficients. This system may be solved numerically in a step-by-step manner by using implicit Runge–Kutta method of order four. Numerical results indicating the high accuracy and effectiveness of this algorithm are presented.