In this paper, an effective numerical iterative method for solving nonlinear initial value problems (IVPs) is presented. The proposed iterative scheme, called the Jacobi-Picard iteration (JPI) method, is based on the Picard iteration technique, orthogonal shifted Jacobi polynomials, and shifted Jacobi-Gauss quadrature formula. In comparison with traditional methods, the JPI method uses an iterative formula for updating next step approximations and calculating integrals of the shifted Jacobi polynomials are performed via an exact relation.Also, a vector-matrix form of the JPI method is provided in details which reduce the CPU time. The performance of the presented method has been investigated by solving several nonlinear IVPs. Numerical results show the efficiency and the accuracy of the proposed iterative method. KEYWORDS initial value problems, Jacobi-Gauss quadrature formula, Picard iteration method, shifted Jacobi polynomials, vector-matrix form MSC CLASSIFICATION 65L05; 33C45; 33F05; 65D32
| INTRODUCTIONOne of the scientific methods for solving physics, chemistry, and engineering problems and analyzing natural phenomena is constructing mathematical models for these problems. Some of these models arise in the form of initial value problems (IVPs), namely, a differential equation with the initial condition(s). Various methods are presented to solve IVPs. These methods are classified as analytical, semianalytical, and basically numerical methods.The most commonly used semianalytical methods are the Adomian decomposition method (ADM) and its modifications, 1-4 the variational iteration method (VIM), 5-8 the hybrid spectral-variational iteration method (H-S-VIM), 9 the homotopy perturbation method (HPM), 10-12 homotopy analysis method (HAM), 13,14 and the differential transformation method (DTM) 15-17 ; on the other hand, collocation method using Chebyshev and Legendre as Jacobi polynomials, 18-29 radial basis function method, 30-34 cubic B-spline scaling function and Chebyshev cardinal function method, [35][36][37] Birkhoff-type interpolation method, 38,39 collocation method using Bernstein polynomials, 40-43 the Galerkin method, 44 the hybrid block-pulse and Chebyshev cardinal function method, 45 the linear barycentric rational interpolation method, 46 and also other numerical methods such as Runge-Kutta-Nyström method and multistep predictor-corrector method are proposed by some researchers such as Ahmad et al, 47 Jator and Lee, 48 Kosti et al, 49,50 Papadopoulos et al, 51 and Simos 52 for solving periodical oscillatory IVPs.