In this work the collocation method based on quartic B-spline is developed and applied to two-point boundary value problem in ordinary diferential equations. The error analysis and convergence of presented method is discussed. The method illustrated by two test examples which verify that the presented method is applicable and considerable accurate.

We consider time domain acoustic scattering from a penetrable medium with a variable sound speed. This problem can be reduced to solving a time domain volume Lippmann-Schwinger integral equation. Using convolution quadrature in time and trigonometric collocation in space we can compute an approximate solution. We prove that the time domain Lippmann-Schwinger equation has a unique solution and p...

Here we propose a new method based on projections for the approximate solution of eigenvalue problems. For an integral operator with a smooth kernel, using an interpolatory projection at Gauss points onto the space of (discontinuous) piecewise polynomials of degree ≤ r−1, we show that the proposed method exhibits an error of the order of 4r for eigenvalue approximation and of the order of 3r fo...

Here a posteriori error estimate for the numerical solution of nonlinear Voltena- Hammerstein equations is given. We present an error upper bound for nonlinear Voltena-Hammastein integral equations, in which the form of nonlinearity is algebraic and develop a posteriori error estimate for the recently proposed method of Brunner for these problems (the implicitly linear collocation method)...

The commonly used graded piecewise polynomial collocation method for weakly singular Volterra integral equations may cause serious round-off error problems due to its use of extremely nonuniform partitions and the sensitivity of such time-dependent equations to round-off errors. The singularity preserving (nonpolynomial) collocation method is known to have only local convergence. To overcome th...

In this work, we consider an elliptic partial differential equation with a random coefficient solved with the stochastic collocation finite element method. The random diffusion coefficient is assumed to depend in an affine way on independent random variables. We derive a residual-based a posteriori error estimate that is constituted of two parts controlling the stochastic collocation (SC) and t...

Cloud property data sets derived from passive sensors onboard the polar orbiting satellites (such as the NOAA’s Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer) have global coverage and now span a climatological time period. Synoptic surface observations (SYNOP) are often used to characterize the accuracy of satellite-based cloud cover. Infrequent overpasses of polar orbiting satellites combined with ...

We propose and analyze the spectral collocation approximation for the partial integrodifferential equations with a weakly singular kernel. The space discretization is based on the pseudo-spectral method, which is a collocation method at the Gauss-Lobatto quadrature points. We prove unconditional stability and obtain the optimal error bounds which depend on the time step, the degree of polynomia...

In this paper, a finite element error analysis is performed on a class of linear and nonlinear elliptic problems with small uncertain input. Using a perturbation approach, the exact (random) solution is expanded up to a certain order with respect to a parameter that controls the amount of randomness in the input and discretized by finite elements. We start by studying a diffusion (linear) model...