Shifted Horadam Collocation Method for Solution of Nonlinear Fourth-Order Boundary Value Problem in Ordinary Differential Equation

Abstract

In this paper, numerical solutions of a class of nonlinear ordinary differential equations are obtained using a collocation method based on the shifted Horadam polynomials. The proposed problem, which is of the fourth-order, satisfies a class of two-point boundary conditions. We first discuss definitions and basic properties of the Horadam polynomials before presenting new and useful differentiation formulae for them. Novel interesting identities are deduced from the differentiation properties. The collocation method under consideration assumes that the solution of the proposed problem can be expressed as a shifted Horadam polynomial series. To determine the expansion coefficients of the series solution, one collocates at the zeros of the shifted Horadam polynomials, and the proposed boundary value problem is subsequently reduced to a set of nonlinear algebraic equations. These algebraic equations are then solved using Newton's iterative method to obtain the numerical values of the expansion coefficients of the shifted Horadam polynomial series solution. Several examples of the proposed nonlinear boundary value problem are considered to demonstrate the accuracy, efficiency, and reliability of the proposed method. Numerical solutions and errors obtained are compared with existing solutions. Comparisons of results, which are shown in tables and graphs, clearly reveal that the shifted Horadam collocation method outperforms the existing methods.