  We demonstrate the feasibility and efficiency of the Coulomb-Sturmian
separable expansion method for generating accurate solutions of the Faddeev
equations. Results obtained with this method are reported for several benchmark
cases of bosonic and fermionic three-body systems. Correct bound-state results
in agreement with the ones established in the literature are achieved for
short-range interactions. We outline the formalism for the treatment of
three-body Coulomb systems and present a bound-state calculation for a
three-boson system interacting via Coulomb plus short-range forces. The
corresponding result is in good agreement with the answer from a recent
stochastic-variational-method calculation.
