Finite Elements Solutions to the Black - Scholes Equation

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2020-05-01

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Zhanatova, Nazym

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Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities

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Nowadays, for the financial industry it is important to implement mathematical tools of the advanced level. World’s well-known economists Fischer Black and Myron Scholes introduced the distinguished equation for option pricing in 1973. This Capstone project aims to find finite element solutions to the Black-Scholes Equation. For this, the Black-Scholes Equation is solved as a convection dominated problem through the Local Projection Stabilization, where Galerkin finite element method is applied to the parabolic equation. Hence, for the Local Projection Stabilization, the functions of L2 – orthogonal finite element basis of arbitrary order are constructed. These functions result in a diagonal mass matrix which are useful for time discretization.

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