TY - INPR A1 - Rattana, Amornrat A1 - Böckmann, Christine T1 - Matrix methods for computing Eigenvalues of Sturm-Liouville problems of order four N2 - This paper examines and develops matrix methods to approximate the eigenvalues of a fourth order Sturm-Liouville problem subjected to a kind of fixed boundary conditions, furthermore, it extends the matrix methods for a kind of general boundary conditions. The idea of the methods comes from finite difference and Numerov's method as well as boundary value methods for second order regular Sturm-Liouville problems. Moreover, the determination of the correction term formulas of the matrix methods are investigated in order to obtain better approximations of the problem with fixed boundary conditions since the exact eigenvalues for q = 0 are known in this case. Finally, some numerical examples are illustrated. T3 - Preprints des Instituts für Mathematik der Universität Potsdam - 1(2012)13 KW - Finite difference method KW - Numerov's method KW - Boundary value methods KW - Fourth order Sturm-Liouville problem KW - Eigenvalues Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-59279 ER -