A pseudo-spectral scheme for variable order fractional stochastic Volterra integro-differential equations

Abstract

A spectral collocation method is proposed to solve variable order fractional stochastic Volterra integro-differential equations. The new technique relies on shifted fractional order Legendre orthogonal functions outputted by Legendre polynomials. The original equations are approximated using the shifted fractional order Legendre-Gauss-Radau collocation technique. The function describing the Brownian motion is discretized by means of Lagrange interpolation. The integral components are interpolated using Legendre-Gauss-Lobatto quadrature. The approach reveals superiority over other classical techniques, especially when treating problems with non-smooth solutions.

Keywords

• fractional volterra integro-differential equation
• caputo fractional derivative
• spectral collocation method