| Abstract: | A new method is proposed for numerical solution of Fredholm and Volterra integro-differential equations of second kind. The proposed method is based on Haar wavelets approximation. Special characteristics of Haar wavelets approximation has been used in the derivation of this method. The new method is the extension of the recent work Aziz and Siraj-ul-Islam, New algorithms for numerical solution of nonlinear Fredholm and Volterra integral equations using Haar wavelets, J. Comput. Appl. Math. 239 (2013), pp. 333–345] from integral equations to integro-differential equations. The method is specifically derived for nonlinear problems. Two new algorithms are also proposed based on this new method, one each for numerical solution of Fredholm and Volterra integro-differential equations. The proposed algorithms are generic and are applicable to all types of both nonlinear Fredholm and Volterra integro-differential equations of second kind. The cost of the new algorithms is considerably reduced by using the Broyden's method instead of Newton's method for solution of system of nonlinear equations. Most of the numerical methods designed for solution of integro-differential equations rely on some other technique for numerical integration. The advantage of our method is that it does not use numerical integration. The integrand is approximated using Haar wavelets approximation and then exact integration is performed. The method is tested on number of problems and numerical results are compared with existing methods in the literature. The numerical results indicate that accuracy of the obtained solutions is reasonably high even when the number of collocation points is small. |
