A numerical technique for the solution of general eighth order boundary value problems: a finite difference method

In this article, we present a novel finite difference method for the numerical solution of the eighth order boundary value problems in ordinary differential equations. We have discretized the problem by using the boundary conditions in a natural way to obtain a system of equations. Then we have solved system of equations to obtain a numerical solution of the problem. Also we obtained numerical values of derivatives of solution as a byproduct of the method. The numerical experiments show that proposed method is efficient and fourth order accurate.