An equidistributed grid-based second-order scheme for a singularly perturbed Fredholm integro-differential equation with an interior layer

Abstract

In this study, we introduce and evaluate the effectiveness of the central finite difference coupled with a composite trapezoidal rule on adapted meshes in solving a second-order singularly perturbed Fredholm integro-differential equation with a discontinuous source term. A grid equidistribution technique was employed to address the challenge posed by the perturbation parameter in classical numerical methods. Our approach demonstrated superior precision compared to existing schemes in the literature and achieved second-order uniform convergence.