In this dissertation we first formulate the Black-Scholes equation with a tensor (or matrix) diffusion coefficient into a conservative form and present a convergence analysis for the two-dimensional Black-Scholes equation arising in the Hull-White model for pricing European options with stochastic volatility. We formulate a non-conforming Petrov-Galerkin finite element method with each basis function of the trial space being determined by a set of two-point boundary value problems defined on element edges. We show that the bilinear form of the finite element method is coercive and continuous and establish an upper bound of order O(h) on the discretization error of method, where h denotes the mesh parameter of the discretization. We then present a finite volume method for the resulting equation, based on a fitting technique proposed for a one-dimensional Black-Scholes equation. We show that the method is monotone by proving that the system matrix of the discretized equation is an M-matrix. Numerical experiments, performed to demonstrate the usefulness of the method, will be presentd.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0622110-172307 |
| Date | 22 June 2010 |
| Creators | Hung, Chen-hui |
| Contributors | Chien-Sen Huang, Tzon-Tzer Lu, Zi-Cai Li, Tsu-Fen CHEN, Weichung Wang |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0622110-172307 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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