A shifted Legendre method for solving a population model and delay linear Volterra integro-differential equations

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a collocation method to obtain the approximate solutions of a population model and the delay linear Volterra integro-differential equations. The method is based on the shifted Legendre polynomials. By using the required matrix operations and collocation points, the delay linear Fredholm integro-differential equation is transformed into a matrix equation. The matrix equation corresponds to a system of linear algebraic equations. Also, an error estimation method for method and improvement of solutions is presented by using the residual function. Applications of population model and general delay integro-differential equation are given. The obtained results are compared with the known results.