Research Article

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

Table 2

Comparison of the SQLM and CFD-QLM results for the solution of in Example 1.

Exact SQLM CFD6-QLM
CPU time CPU time 

2 1.732050808 40 1.732050808 0.06 270 1.732050808 0.31
5 4.898979486 40 4.898979486 0.03 550 4.898979486 1.87
10 9.949874371 40 9.949874371 0.01 700 9.949874371 2.84