Access

You are not currently logged in.

Access your personal account or get JSTOR access through your library or other institution:

High Order Methods for a Class of Volterra Integral Equations with Weakly Singular Kernels

Frank De Hoog and Richard Weiss
SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis
Vol. 11, No. 6 (Dec., 1974), pp. 1166-1180
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2156233
Page Count: 15
Preview not available

Abstract

The solution of the Volterra integral equation \begin{equation*} \tag{(*)} x(t) = g_1(t) + \sqrt t g_2(t) + \int^t_0 \frac{K(t, s, x(s))}{\sqrt {t - s}} ds, \quad 0 \leqq t \leqq T,\end {equation*} where g1(t), g2(t) and K(t, s, x) are smooth functions, can be represented as $x(t) = u(t) + \sqrt t \nu(t), 0 \leqq t \leqq T$, where u(t), ν(t) are smooth and satisfy a system of Volterra integral equations. In this paper, numerical schemes for the solution of (*) are suggested which calculate x(t) via u(t), ν(t) in a neighborhood of the origin and use (*) on the rest of the interval 0 ≤ t ≤ T. In this way, methods of arbitrarily high order can be derived. As an example, schemes based on the product integration analogue of Simpson's rule are treated in detail. The schemes are shown to be convergent of order h7/2. Asymptotic error estimates are derived in order to examine the numerical stability of the methods.

• 1166
• 1167
• 1168
• 1169
• 1170
• 1171
• 1172
• 1173
• 1174
• 1175
• 1176
• 1177
• 1178
• 1179
• 1180