hp-version collocation method for a class of nonlinear Volterra integral equations of the first kind.

In this paper, we present a collocation method for nonlinear Volterra integral equation of the first kind. This method benefits from the idea of hp -version projection methods. We provide an approximation based on the Legendre polynomial interpolation. The convergence of the proposed method is completely studied and an error estimate under the L 2 -norm is provided. Finally, several numerical experiments are presented in order to verify the obtained theoretical results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]