Implicitly linear Jacobi spectral-collocation methods for two-dimensional weakly singular Volterra-Hammerstein integral equations

Abstract

Weakly singular Volterra integral equations of the second kind typically have nonsmooth solutions near the initial point of the interval of integration, which seriously affects the accuracy of spectral methods. We present Jacobi spectral-collocation method to solve two-dimensional weakly singular Volterra-Hammerstein integral equations based on smoothing transformation and implicitly linear method. The solution of the smoothed equation is much smoother than the original one after smoothing transformation and the spectral method can be used. For the nonlinear Hammerstein term, the implicitly linear method is applied to simplify the calculation and improve the accuracy. The weakly singular integral term is discretized by Jacobi Gauss quadrature formula which can absorb the weakly singular kernel function into the quadrature weight function and eliminate the influence of the weakly singular kernel on the method. Convergence analysis in the L∞-norm is carried out and the exponential convergence rate is obtained. Finally, we demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed method by numerical examples.