Dissipativity of Runge-Kutta methods for neutral delay integro-differential equations (Q732394)

The study of numerical methods for initial value problems of neutral delay integro-differential equations is more difficult and there are only a few papers dealing with such methods. This paper investigates numerical dissipativity of a class of nonlinear neutral delay integro-differential equations. Numerical dissipativity results for Runge-Kutta methods applied to an initial value problem of neutral delay integro-differential equation are established. Applying an adaptation of an \(s\)-stage implicit Runge-Kutta method, using an interpolation procedure for the delay terms and the repeated trapezoidal rule for the integral terms, a new numerical scheme for solving the neutral delay integro-differential equations, are obtained. Under some hypothesis on the Runge-Kutta method (to be algebraically stable), the authors prove that the proposed numerical scheme for solving neutral delay integro-differential equations is dissipative (this means that the approximate values of the solution are bounded in norm). The obtained results are compared with existing results on the dissipativity for Runge-Kutta methods and for the dissipativity of \(\theta\)-methods.