摘要：This paper concerns the dissipativity of nonlinear Volterra functional differential equations (VFDEs) in Banach space and their numerical discretization. We derive sufficient conditions for the dissipativity of nonlinear VFDEs. The general results provide a unified theoretical treatment for dissipativity analysis to ordinary differential equations (ODEs), delay differential equations (DDEs), integro-differential equations (IDEs) and VFDEs of other type appearing in practice. Then the dissipativity property of the backward Euler method for VFDEs is investigated. It is shown that the method can inherit the dissipativity of the underlying system. The close relationship between the absorbing set of the numerically discrete system generated by the backward Euler method and that of the underlying system is revealed.
