Research Article

A Fourier Continuation Method for the Solution of Elliptic Eigenvalue Problems in General Domains

Table 4

Computational times and number of iterations required for evaluation of the Laplacian on the thinly tethered membrane. All computations were performed on a 2.67 GHz Intel Xeon processor to a tolerance of .

Time per operation (s) Number of operations Total time in (s)

56320 0.061338 464727 28505.4983
79420 0.072279 1758160 127079.4402
116380 0.115435 2679346 309291.7615
166045 0.167378 2793136 467510.6446