Numerical solution of weakly singular Volterra integro-differential equations with change of variables

  • Authors:
  • Marek Kolk;Arvet Pedas

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Applied Mathematics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia;Institute of Applied Mathematics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

  • Venue:
  • ICOSSE'06 Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS international conference on System science and simulation in engineering
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We discuss a possibility to construct high order methods on uniform or mildly graded grids for the numerical solution of linear Volterra integro-differential equations with weakly singular or other nonsmooth kernels. Using an integral equation reformulation of the initial value problem, we apply to it a smoothing transformation so that the exact solution of the resulting equation does not contain any singularities in its derivatives up to a certain order. After that the regularized equation is solved by a piecewise polynomial collocation method on a mildly graded or uniform grid. In particular, a numerical method based on the Haar wavelets can be constructed.