Wavelets theory is a new emerging tool in applied mathematical research area. It is applicable in various fields, such as, signal analysis for waveform representation and segmentations, time-frequency analysis and Harmonic analysis. Wavelets permit the accurate representation of a variety of functions and operators. Moreover, wavelets establish a connection with fast numerical algorithms [1, 2]. Since 1991 the various types of wavelet methods have been applied for the numerical solution of different kinds of integral equations [3]. Namely, the Haar wavelets method [3], Legendre wavelets method [4], Rationalized haar wavelet [5], Hermite cubic splines [6], Coifman wavelet scaling functions [7], CAS wavelets [8], Bernoulli wavelets [9], wavelet preconditioned techniques [25, 26, 27, 28,]. Some of the papers are found for solving Abel′s integral equations using the wavelet based methods, such as Legendre wavelets [10] and Chebyshev wavelets [11].
Abel′s integral equations have applications in various fields of science and engineering. Such as microscopy, seismology, semiconductors, scattering theory, heat conduction, metallurgy, fluid flow, chemical reactions, plasma diagnostics, X-ray radiography, physical electronics, nuclear physics [12, 13, 14].
In 1823, Abel, when generalizing the tautochrone problem derived the equation:
where
The article is organized as follows: In Section 2, formulation of Hermite wavelets and function approximation is presented. Section 3 is devoted the method of solution. In section 4, numerical results are demonstrated the accuracy of the proposed method by some of the illustrative examples. Lastly, the conclusion is given in section 5.
Wavelets constitute a family of functions constructed from dilation and translation of a single function called mother wavelet. When the dilation parameter
If we restrict the parameters
where
where
where
where
where
The series solution of Hermite wavelet
Let
Let
Let us denote the sequence of partial sums
Let
Choose,
We claim that
Now
thus,
Since, Bessel’s inequality, we have
Hence,
This implies,
Therefore {
We assert that
Now 〈
This implies,
Hence
Suppose that
Applying the definition of norm in the inner product space, we have,
Divide interval [0, 1] into 2
where
which, we have used the well-known maximum error bound for the interpolation.
Consider the Abel′s integral equation of the form,
where
where
Next, assume eq.(10) is precise at following collocation points
Next, we obtain the system of algebraic equations with 2
In this section, we present Hermite wavelets method for the numerical solution of Abel′s integral equation to demonstrate the capability of the present method.
where
Consider the Abel′s integral equation of first kind [22],
We apply the present method to solve eq.(12) with
Then applying the procedure discussed in the section 3. We get a system of four algebraic equations with four unknowns and solving this system, we obtain the Hermite wavelet coefficients as,
Numerical results of example 1.
Exact solution
Present method (
Abs. Error
0.1
0.9910
0.9910
1.61e-12
0.2
0.9680
0.9680
4.71e-13
0.3
0.9370
0.9370
2.27e-12
0.4
0.9040
0.9040
3.04e-12
0.5
0.8750
0.8750
2.52e-12
0.6
0.8560
0.8560
9.67e-13
0.7
0.8530
0.8530
9.64e-13
0.8
0.8720
0.8720
2.36e-12
0.9
0.9190
0.9190
2.36e-12
Consider the Abel′s integral equation of the first kind [22, 23],
which has the exact solution
Numerical results of example 2.
Exact solution
Present method (
Method [22] (
Method [23] (m = 16)
0.1
0.201317
0.200842
0.200128
0.200460
0.2
0.284705
0.284667
0.286092
0.297987
0.3
0.348691
0.348628
0.347394
0.337588
0.4
0.402634
0.402609
0.404161
0.405769
0.5
0.450158
0.450129
0.449568
0.464014
0.6
0.493124
0.493113
0.492704
0.490550
0.7
0.532634
0.532607
0.532315
0.539721
0.8
0.569410
0.569440
0.569156
0.562698
0.9
0.603951
0.603690
0.603742
0.606044
Error analysis of example 2.
Present method (
Method [22] (
Method [23] (m = 16)
0.1
4.73e-04
1.18e-03
8.57e-04
0.2
3.77e-05
1.38e-03
1.32e-02
0.3
6.21e-05
1.29e-03
1.11e-02
0.4
2.37e-05
1.52e-03
3.13e-03
0.5
2.85e-05
5.90e-04
1.38e-02
0.6
9.87e-06
4.19e-04
2.57e-03
0.7
2.72e-05
3.19e-04
7.08e-03
0.8
3.05e-05
2.54e-04
6.71e-03
0.9
2.59e-04
2.08e-04
2.09e-03
Consider the Abel′s integral equation of the second kind [22, 23],
which has the exact solution
Numerical results of example 3.
Exact solution
Present method (
Method [23] (m = 16)
0.1
0.953462589245592
0.953462604453520
0.95646081381695
0.2
0.912870929175277
0.912870928482700
0.90601007037324
0.3
0.877058019307029
0.877058021105882
0.88361513925322
0.4
0.845154254728517
0.845154255308354
0.84340093819493
0.5
0.816496580927726
0.816496581976408
0.80822420481499
0.6
0.790569415042095
0.790569415421744
0.79221049469412
0.7
0.766964988847370
0.766964989996025
0.76284677221990
0.8
0.745355992499930
0.745355991505969
0.74933888037055
0.9
0.725476250110012
0.725476258975992
0.72434536240934
Error analysis of example 3.
Present method (
Method [23] (m = 16)
0.1
1.52e-08
2.99e-03
0.2
6.92e-10
6.86e-03
0.3
1.79e-09
6.55e-03
0.4
5.79e-10
1.75e-03
0.5
1.04e-09
8.27e-03
0.6
3.79e-10
1.64e-03
0.7
1.14e-09
4.11e-03
0.8
9.93e-10
3.98e-03
0.9
8.86e-09
1.13e-03
Consider the Abel′s integral equations of the second kind [22, 23],
which has the exact solution
Numerical results of example 4.
Exact solution
Present method (
Method [22] (
Method [23] (m = 16)
0.1
0.414059
0.411229
0.415689
0.402472
0.2
0.508352
0.507572
0.505528
0.519751
0.3
0.564309
0.563685
0.566205
0.554755
0.4
0.603347
0.602926
0.601908
0.605031
0.5
0.632868
0.632521
0.634188
0.640487
0.6
0.656323
0.656059
0.655109
0.654785
0.7
0.675601
0.675358
0.676588
0.678700
0.8
0.691842
0.691690
0.691596
0.688860
0.9
0.705787
0.705398
0.704377
0.706495
Error analysis of example 4.
Present method (
Method [22] (
Method [23] (m = 16)
0.1
2.82e-03
1.62e-03
1.15e-02
0.2
7.79e-04
2.82e-03
1.13e-02
0.3
6.23e-04
1.89e-03
9.55e-03
0.4
4.21e-04
1.43e-03
1.68e-03
0.5
3.46e-04
1.32e-03
7.61e-03
0.6
2.63e-04
1.21e-03
1.53e-03
0.7
2.42e-04
9.86e-04
3.09e-03
0.8
1.50e-04
2.45e-04
2.98e-03
0.9
3.87e-04
1.40e-03
7.08e-04
The Hermite wavelet method is applied for the numerical solution of Abel′s integral equations. The present method reduces an integral equation into a set of algebraic equations. Obtained results are higher accuracy with exact ones and existing methods [22, 23], which can be observed in section 5. The numerical results shows that the accuracy improves with increasing the values of