B-Spline collocation method for linear and nonlinear Fredholm and Volterra integro-differential equations

Abstract

A numerical method based on quintic B-spline has been developed to solve the linear and nonlinear Fredholm and Volterra integro-differential equations up to order 4. The solution and its derivatives are collocated by quintic B-spline and then the integral equation is approximated by the 4-points Gauss–Turán quadrature formula with respect to the weight function Legendre. The error analysis of proposed numerical method is studied theoretically. Numerical results are given to illustrate the efficiency of the proposed method which shows that our method can be applied for large values of N. The results are compared with the results obtained by other methods which show that our method is accurate.

Keywords:

• linear and nonlinear Fredholm and Volterra integro-differential equations
• quintic B-spline
• Gauss–Turán quadrature formula
• error analysis

AMS Subject Classifications::

• 41A15
• 65R20