The Numerical Solution of Volterra Equations
The Numerical Solution of Volterra Equations

Author: Hermann Brunner

Publisher: North Holland

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 608

ISBN-13:

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This monograph presents the theory and modern numerical analysis of Volterra integral and integro-differential equations, including equations with weakly singular kernels. While the research worker will find an up-to-date account of recent developments of numerical methods for such equations, including an extensive bibliography, the authors have tried to make the book accessible to the non-specialist possessing only a limited knowledge of numerical analysis. After an introduction to the theory of Volterra equations and to numerical integration, the book covers linear methods and Runge-Kutta methods, collocation methods based on polynomial spline functions, stability of numerical methods, and it surveys computer programs for Volterra integral and integro-differential equations.

Integral Equations
Integral Equations

Author: Wolfgang Hackbusch

Publisher: Birkhäuser

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 3034892152

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The theory of integral equations has been an active research field for many years and is based on analysis, function theory, and functional analysis. On the other hand, integral equations are of practical interest because of the «boundary integral equation method», which transforms partial differential equations on a domain into integral equations over its boundary. This book grew out of a series of lectures given by the author at the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum and the Christian-Albrecht-Universitat zu Kiel to students of mathematics. The contents of the first six chapters correspond to an intensive lecture course of four hours per week for a semester. Readers of the book require background from analysis and the foundations of numeri cal mathematics. Knowledge of functional analysis is helpful, but to begin with some basic facts about Banach and Hilbert spaces are sufficient. The theoretical part of this book is reduced to a minimum; in Chapters 2, 4, and 5 more importance is attached to the numerical treatment of the integral equations than to their theory. Important parts of functional analysis (e. g. , the Riesz-Schauder theory) are presented without proof. We expect the reader either to be already familiar with functional analysis or to become motivated by the practical examples given here to read a book about this topic. We recall that also from a historical point of view, functional analysis was initially stimulated by the investigation of integral equations.