The Fine Error Estimation of Collocation Methods on Uniform Meshes for Weakly Singular Volterra Integral Equations

Hui Liang, Hermann Brunner*

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Abstract

It is well known that for the second-kind Volterra integral equations (VIEs) with weakly singular kernel, if we use piecewise polynomial collocation methods of degree m to solve it numerically, due to the weak singularity of the solution at the initial time t= 0 , only 1 - α global convergence order can be obtained on uniform meshes, comparing with m global convergence order for VIEs with smooth kernel. However, in this paper, we will see that at mesh points, the convergence order can be improved, and it is better and better as n increasing. In particular, 1 order can be recovered for m= 1 at the endpoint. Some superconvergence results are obtained for iterated collocation methods, and a representative numerical example is presented to illustrate the obtained theoretical results.

Original languageEnglish
Article number12
Number of pages23
JournalJournal of Scientific Computing
Volume84
Issue number1
Early online date30 Jun 2020
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2020

Scopus Subject Areas

  • Software
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Numerical Analysis
  • General Engineering
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Computational Mathematics
  • Applied Mathematics

User-Defined Keywords

  • Collocation methods
  • Convergence
  • Endpoint
  • Mesh points
  • Uniform meshes
  • Volterra integral equations
  • Weakly singular kernels

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