An O(h 6) quintic spline collocation method for fourth order two-point boundary value problems (Q1106634)

An O(h 6) collocation method based on quintic splines is developed and analyzed for general fourth-order linear two-point boundary value problems. The method determines a quintic spline approximation to the solution by forcing it to satisfy a high order perturbation of the original boundary value problem at the uniformly distributed nodal points of the splines. A variation of this method is formulated as a deferred correction method. The error analysis of the new method including the convergence theorems and its numerical behaviour is presented.