Spline Collocation Approximation to Periodic Solutions of Ordinary Differential Equations

Abstract

A spline collocation method is proposed to approximate the periodic solution of nonlinear ordinary differential equations. It is proved that the cubic periodic spline collocation solution has the same error bound $O(h^4)$ and superconvergence of the derivative at collocation points as that of the interpolating spline function. Finally a numerical example is given to demonstrate the effectiveness of our algorithm.