Cubic B-Spline method for the solution of the quadratic Riccati differential equation

Abstract

The quadratic Riccati equations are first-order nonlinear differential equations with numerous applications in various applied science and engineering areas. Therefore, several numerical approaches have been derived to find their numerical solutions. This paper provided the approximate solution of the quadratic Riccati equation via the cubic b-spline method. The convergence analysis of the method is discussed. The efficiency and applicability of the proposed approach are verified through three numerical test problems. The obtained results are in good settlement with the exact solutions. Moreover, the numerical results indicate that the proposed cubic b-spline method attains a superior performance compared with some existing methods.

Keywords

• cubic b-spline method
• nonlinear equations
• numerical analysis
• riccati differential equation
• first-order differential equations