One-step numerical methods for mixed functional differential equations

First-order partial differential equations are reduced to ordinary differential equations by the method of characteristics. If there is a delay in the original equation, a similar method reduces the equation to a mixed functional differential equation with influence effects in the space variable and with time heredity. We present schemes of one-step multistage methods (analogs of explicit Runge-Kutta methods) for the numerical solution of mixed functional differential equations with the use of two-dimensional interpolation by degenerate splines. Orders of convergence are studied and results of numerical experiments on test examples are given.