Systems of nonlinear Volterra integro-differential equations (Q663487)

The following systems of nonlinear Volterra integro-differential equations with some supplementary conditions are studied \[ \begin{multlined} \sum\limits_{j=1}^{m}\left[ D_{ij}\left(\chi,y_j,\ldots,y_j^{(\alpha_{ij})}\right)+ \int\limits_{0}^{\chi}k_{ij}(\chi,t)\varphi_{ij}\left(t,y_j(t),\ldots,y_j^{(\beta_{ij})}(t)\right)dt\right]\\ =f_i(\chi),\; \chi,t\in[0,b]. \end{multlined} \] For such systems an efficient method based on operational tau matrix is developed. The presented method is also modified for the problems with separable kernel. Error estimates of the new schemes are analyzed and discussed. The advantages of this approach and its modification is that the solution can be expressed as a truncated Taylor series, and the error function at any stage can be estimated. The methods are applied on four problems with separable kernels to show the applicability and efficiency of the schemes, specially for those problems at broad intervals. Several numerical examples demonstrating the efficiency of such method are also given.