Research Article

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

Table 5

Computational times and number of iterations required for evaluation of the variable coefficient elliptic operator (12) with . All computations were performed on a 2.67 GHz Intel Xeon processor.

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

3950 0.009051 1242 11.2415
15800 0.023501 3072 72.1960
63200 0.109634 7610 834.3157
252800 0.370401 20630 7641.3635