JOURNAL OF TAIBAH UNIVERSITY FOR SCIENCE, cilt.14, sa.1, ss.661-669, 2020 (SCI-Expanded)
In this article, an operational matrix approach is presented to solve the Riccati type differential equations with functional arguments. These equations are encountered in Mathematical Physics. The method is based on the least-squares approximation and the operational matrices of integration and product. By obtaining the operation matrices for each term of the problem, the method converts the problem to a system of nonlinear algebraic equations. The roots of last system are used in determination of unknown function. Error analysis is made. Numerical applications are given to show efficiency of the method and also the comparisons are made with other methods from literature. In applications of the method, it is observed from the applications that the suggested method gives effective results.