In this paper we give necessary and sufficient conditions for convergence of continuous collocation approximations of solutions of first kind Volterra integral equations. The results close some longstanding gaps in the theory of polynomial spline collocation methods for such equations. The convergence analysis is based on a Runge-Kutta or ODE approach.

We solve the time-dependent Dirac equation for a muon which is initially bound to a fissioning actinide nucleus. The computations are carried out on a 3-D cartesian lattice utilizing the Basis-Spline collocation method. The muon dynamics is sensitive to the nuclear energy dissipation between the outer fission barrier and the scission point. From a comparison with experimental data we find a dis...

An overlapping domain partitioning based on adapting nodes is presented for the meshless-type methods. The decomposition of the domain is carried out based on the distribution of the nodes produced rather than the geometry of the problem. A set of adaptive nodes is first generated using the dimension reduction and equidistributing along the coordinate directions with respect to arc-length monit...

We examine the use of orthogonal spline collocation for the semi-discretization of the cubic Schrr odinger equation and the two-dimensional parabolic equation of Tappert. In each case, an optimal order L 2 estimate of the error in the semidiscrete approximation is derived. For the cubic Schrr odinger equation, we present the results of numerical experiments in which the integration in time is p...

In this paper we introduce a numerical approach that solves optimal control problems (OCPs) using collocation methods. This approach is based upon B-spline functions. The derivative matrices between any two families of B-spline functions are utilized to reduce the solution of OCPs to the solution of nonlinear optimization problems. Numerical experiments confirm our theoretical findings.

Collocation method with sixth degree B-splines as basis functions has been developed to solve a fifth order special case boundary value problem. To get an accurate solution by the collocation method with sixth degree B-splines, the original sixth degree B-splines are redefined into a new set of basis functions which in number match with the number of collocation points. The method is tested for...

In this paper we tackle on mixed Volterra–Fredholm integral equations, as in linear as in non linear cases. To the aim to obtain numerical solutions of these models, the authors propose in the linear case the direct collocation method using a p-order quasi interpolating spline class and in the nonlinear case the fixed point method based on polynomial approximation built by Schauder tensor bases...

This paper is intended as a contribution to enhance orthogonal collocation methods. In this, a novel collocation method—TH-collocation—is applied to the biharmonic equation and themerits of such procedure are exhibited. TH-collocation relaxes the continuity requirements and, for the 2D problems here treated, leads to the development of algorithms for which the matrices are sparse (nine-diagonal...

Quadratic Spline Collocation (QSC) methods of optimal order of convergence have been recently developed for the solution of elliptic Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). In this paper, linear solvers based on Fast Fourier Transforms (FFT) are developed for the solution of the QSC equations. The complexity of the FFT solvers is O(N2 logN), where N is the gridsize in one dimension. These direct...

The present article is concerned with the numerical solution of Benjamin-BonaMahony-Burgers (BBM-Burger) equation by quartic B-spline collocation method. The method is based on quartic B-spline basis functions for space integration, and Crank-Nicolson formulation for time integration. Numerical examples considered by different researchers are discussed to illustrate the efficiency, robustness a...