Smoothing transformation and piecewise polynomial collocation for weakly singular Volterra integral equations (Q1764143)

The aim of this paper is to construct high order numerical algorithms for solving linear weakly singular Volterra integral equations on either a uniform or a mildly graded grid. The aim is that the methods constructed should be more stable than collocation methods. The paper is structured as follows: A piecewise polynomial interpolation is proposed. One can construct a standard polynomial collocation, but following a smoothing transformation it turns out that a modified collocation becomes possible. The paper presents results on the local super-convergence of the modified collocation and finishes with some numerical examples.