Spectral Methods for Time-Dependent Problems

Introduction; 1. From local to global approximation; 2. Trigonometric polynomial approximation; 3. Fourier spectral methods; 4. Orthogonal polynomials; 5. Polynomial expansions; 6. Polynomial approximations theory for smooth functions; 7. Polynomial spectral methods; 8. Stability of polynomial spectral methods; 9. Spectral methods for non-smooth problems; 10. Discrete stability and time integration; 11. Computational aspects; 12. Spectral methods on general grids; Bibliography.