Spectral-Collocation Method for Volterra Delay Integro-Differential Equations with Weakly Singular Kernels

Abstract

A spectral Jacobi-collocation approximation is proposed for Volterra delay integro-differential equations with weakly singular kernels. In this paper, we consider the special case that the underlying solutions of equations are sufficiently smooth. We provide a rigorous error analysis for the proposed method, which shows that both the errors of approximate solutions and the errors of approximate derivatives decay exponentially in $L^∞$ norm and weighted $L^2$ norm. Finally, two numerical examples are presented to demonstrate our error analysis.