Two spectral Legendre's derivative algorithms for Lane-Emden, Bratu equations, and singular perturbed problems

Abstract This research aims to assemble two methodical spectral Legendre's derivative algorithms to numerically attack the Lane-Emden, Bratu's, and singularly perturbed type equations. We discretize the exact unknown solution as a truncated series of Legendre's derivative polynomials. Then, via tau and collocation methods for linear and nonlinear problems, respectively, we obtain linear/nonlinear systems of algebraic equations in the unknown expansion coefficients. Finally, with the aid of the Gaussian elimination technique in the linear case and Newton's iterative method for the non-linear case - with vanishing initial guess- we solve these systems to obtain the desired solutions. The stability and convergence analyses of the numerical schemes were studied in-depth. The schemes are convergent and accurate. Some numerical test problems are performed to verify the efficiency of the proposed algorithms.