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This paper surveys and reviews papers of spline solution of singular boundary value problems. Among a number of numerical methods used to solve two-point singular boundary value problems, spline methods provide an efficient tool. Techniques collected in this paper include cubic splines, non-polynomial splines, parametric splines, B-splines and TAGE method.
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Kumar, M., Gupta, Y. Methods for solving singular boundary value problems using splines: a review. J. Appl. Math. Comput. 32, 265–278 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12190-009-0249-2
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Keywords
- Singular boundary value problems
- Quasi-linearization
- Splines
- B-spline
- Finite difference method
- TAGE method