TY - JOUR T1 - A Spectral Method for Pantograph-Type Delay Differential Equations and Its Convergence Analysis AU - Ishtiaq Ali, Hermann Brunner & Tao Tang JO - Journal of Computational Mathematics VL - 2-3 SP - 254 EP - 265 PY - 2009 DA - 2009/04 SN - 27 DO - http://doi.org/ UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jcm/8571.html KW - Spectral methods, Legendre quadrature formula, Pantograph-type delay differential equations, Error analysis, Exponential convergence. AB -

We propose a novel numerical approach for delay differential equations with vanishing proportional delays based on spectral methods. A Legendre-collocation method is employed to obtain highly accurate numerical approximations to the exact solution. It is proved theoretically and demonstrated numerically that the proposed method converges exponentially provided that the data in the given pantograph delay differential equation are smooth.