Legendre spectral collocation method for solving nonlinear fractional Fredholm integro-differential equations with convergence analysis

Abstract

The main purpose of this work was to develop a spectrally accurate collocation method for solving nonlinear fractional Fredholm integro-differential equations (non-FFIDEs). A proposed spectral collocation method is based on the Legendre-Gauss-Lobatto collocation (L-G-LC) method in which the main idea is to use Caputo derivatives and Legendre-Gauss interpolation for nonlinear FFIDEs. A rigorous convergence analysis is provided and confirmed by numerical tests. In addition, we provide some numerical test cases to demonstrate that the approach can preserve the non-smooth solution of the underlying problem.

Keywords

• legendre-gauss-lobatto
• fractional fredholm integro-differential equation
• caputo fractional derivative
• convergence analysis
• spectral method