Research Article

On the Comparison between Compact Finite Difference and Pseudospectral Approaches for Solving Similarity Boundary Layer Problems

Table 1

Comparison of the SRM and CFD-RM results for the solution of in Example 1.

Exact SRM CFD6-RM
CPU time CPU time 

2 1.732050808 40 1.732050808 0.04 270 1.732050808 0.23
5 4.898979486 40 4.898979486 0.01 550 4.898979486 1.11
10 9.949874371 40 9.949874371 0.01 700 9.949874371 2.19