Collocation method using sinc and Rational Legendre functions for solving Volterra’s population model

This paper proposes two approximate methods to solve Volterra’s population model for population growth of a species in a closed system. Volterra’s model is a nonlinear integro-differential equation on a semi-infinite interval, where the integral term represents the effect of toxin. The proposed methods have been established based on collocation approach using Sinc functions and Rational Legendre functions. They are utilized to reduce the computation of this problem to some algebraic equations. These solutions are also compared with some well-known results which show that they are accurate.