Discontinuous Galerkin approximations to second-kind Volterra integral equations with weakly singular kernel

Abstract

The discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method is employed to solve second-kind Volterra integral equations (VIEs) with weakly singular kernels. It is proved that the quadrature DG (QDG) method obtained from the DG method by approximating the inner products by suitable numerical quadrature formulas, is equivalent to the piecewise discontinuous polynomial collocation method. The convergence theory is established for VIEs for both uniform and graded meshes. Some numerical experiments are given to illustrate the obtained theoretical results.