The exponential trapezoidal method for semilinear integro-differential equations

Abstract

The exponential trapezoidal rule is proposed and analyzed for the numerical integration of semilinear integro-differential equations. Although the method is implicit, the numerical solution is easily obtained by standard fixed-point iteration, making its implementation straightforward. Second-order convergence in time is shown in an abstract Hilbert space framework under reasonable assumptions on the problem. Numerical experiments illustrate the proven order of convergence.