Numerical solution based on the Haar wavelet collocation method for partial integro-differential equations of Volterra type

Abstract

In this paper, a numerical investigation of a class of parabolic Volterra integro-differential equations has been carried out. Basically, the finite difference method associated with the Haar wavelet collocation technique is pursued. The main idea relies on semi-discretizing the parabolic-VIDEs by considering the finite differences in time and approximating the integral term within the trapezoidal rule. Afterwards, using a uniform mesh, the spatial derivative is approximated by the Haar wavelet method. Stability and convergence of the proposed approach are established in the frame of Sobolev space. Numerical examples are used to illustrate the effectiveness of this approach under different test scenarios. The error analysis, using both [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] norms, shows that the method has high efficiency computationally with a great deal of accuracy. It is observed that these numerical results are in excellent agreement with the analytical solution. In addition, the methods and results obtained in this study are compared with those reported in recent literature.

Keywords

• Finite difference method
• convergence analysis
• stability analysis
• parabolic integro-differential equation