Analyzing the structure of solutions for weakly singular integro-differential equations with partial derivatives

Abstract

In this work, we analyze the approximate solution of a specific partial integro-differential equation (PIDE) with a weakly singular kernel using the spectral Tau method. It present a numerical solution procedure for this PIDE, which is transferred into a Volterra–Fredholm integral equation (VFIE), and the spectral method is performed on VFIE. In some illustrated examples, we show that the VFIE problem has high numerical stability with respect to the original form of the PIDE problem. For this aim, we apply the spectral Tau method in two cases, first for the problem in the form of VFIE and then also for the problem in the form of PIDE. The remarkable numerical results obtained from the VFIE problem form compared to those gained from the PIDE problem form show the efficiency of the proposal method. Also, we prove the convergence theorem of the numerical solution of the Tau method for the VFIE problem, and then it is generalized to the PIDE problem.

Keywords

• integro-differential equations
• weakly singular integral equations
• volterra–fredholm integral equations
• spectral method
• convergence analysis