Extrapolation of Nystrom solution for two dimensional nonlinear Fredholm integral equations

In this paper, we analyze the existence of asymptotic error expansion of the Nystrom solution for two-dimensional nonlinear Fredholm integral equations of the second kind. We show that the Nystrom solution admits an error expansion in powers of the step-size h and the step-size k. For a special choice of the numerical quadrature, the leading terms in the error expansion for the Nystrom solution contain only even powers of h and k, beginning with terms h2p and k2q. These expansions are useful for the application of Richardson extrapolation and for obtaining sharper error bounds. Numerical examples show that how Richardson extrapolation gives a remarkable increase of precision, in addition to faster convergence.