Fourier-Padé approximations and filtering for spectral simulations of an incompressible Boussinesq convection problem

In this paper, we present rational approximations based on Fourier series representation. For periodic piecewise analytic functions, the well-known Gibbs phenomenon hampers the convergence of the standard Fourier method. Here, for a given set of the Fourier coefficients from a periodic piecewise analytic function, we define Fourier-Padé-Galerkin and Fourier-Padé collocation methods by expressing the coefficients for the rational approximations using the Fourier data. We show that those methods converge exponentially in the smooth region and successfully reduce the Gibbs oscillations as the degrees of the denominators and the numerators of the Padé approximants increase.

Numerical results are demonstrated in several examples. The collocation method is applied as a postprocessing step to the standard pseudospectral simulations for the one-dimensional inviscid Burgers' equation and the two-dimensional incompressible inviscid Boussinesq convection flow.