Piecewise constant bounds for the solution of nonlinear Volterra-Fredholm integral equations (Q712461)

Using the tools offered by interval analysis, the authors compute piecewise constant bounds for the solution of mixed nonlinear Volterra-Fredholm integral equations. They choose the interval enclosures such that it contains the exact solution considering all round-off errors and truncation errors. The obtained interval solutions permit the control of the error estimation. In order to improve the accuracy of the initial enclosures, an iterative algorithm is proposed. The convergence of this algorithm is proved and two numerical experiments are investigated computing the piecewise bounds of the solution and showing the increasing accuracy in comparison to the classical methods.