Fractional powers of linear multistep methods are suggested for the numerical solution of weakly singular Volterra integral equations. The proposed methods are convergent of the order of the underlying multistep method, also in the generic case of solutions which are not smooth at the origin. The stability properties (stability region, A-stability, A(a)-stability) are closely related to those o...

The qualitative and quantitative analyses of numerical methods delay differential equations (DDEs) are now quite well understood, as reflected in the recent monograph by Bellen and Zennaro (2003). This is in remarkable contrast to the situation in the numerical analysis of more general Volterra functional equations in which delays occur in connection with memory terms described by Volterra inte...

we develop and apply the product integration method to a large class of linear weakly singular volterra systems. we show that under certain sufficient conditions this method converges. numerical implementation of the method is illustrated by a benchmark problem originated from heat conduction.

The theory of a class of spectral methods is extended to Volterra integrodifferential equations which contain a weakly singular kernel (t − s)−μ with 0 < μ < 1. In this work, we consider the case when the underlying solutions of weakly singular Volterra integro-differential equations are sufficiently smooth. We provide a rigorous error analysis for the spectral methods, which shows that both th...