TY - JOUR T1 - The Crank-Nicolson Hermite Cubic Orthogonal Spline Collocation Method for the Heat Equation with Nonlocal Boundary Conditions AU - Bialecki , B. AU - Fairweather , G. AU - Lόpez-Marcos , J. C. JO - Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics VL - 4 SP - 442 EP - 460 PY - 2013 DA - 2013/08 SN - 5 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/aamm.13-13S03 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/aamm/79.html KW - Heat equation, nonlocal boundary conditions, orthogonal spline collocation, Hermite cubic splines, convergence analysis, superconvergence. AB -

We formulate and analyze the Crank-Nicolson Hermite cubic orthogonal spline collocation method for the solution of the heat equation in one space variable with nonlocal boundary conditions involving integrals of the unknown solution over the spatial interval. Using an extension of the analysis of Douglas and Dupont [23] for Dirichlet boundary conditions, we derive optimal order error estimates in the discrete maximum norm in time and the continuous maximum norm in space. We discuss the solution of the linear system arising at each time level via the capacitance matrix technique and the package COLROW for solving almost block diagonal linear systems. We present numerical examples that confirm the theoretical global error estimates and exhibit superconvergence phenomena.