A Spectral Element/Laguerre Coupled Method to the Elliptic Helmholtz Problem on the Half Line

A Legendre spectral element/Laguerre coupled method is proposed to numerically solve the elliptic Helmholtz problem on the half line. Rigorous analysis is carried out to establish the convergence of the method. Several numerical examples are provided to confirm the theoretical results. The advantage of this method is demonstrated by a numerical comparison with the pure Laguerre method.