This paper presents new efficient numerical methods for solving Volterra integro-differential equations and a system of nonlinear delay integro-differential equations which arises in biology. The principal idea of these approaches is based on a careful blend of the Petrov-Galerkin technique and the Sumudu transform method. In the proposed methods, using Lagrange polynomials and zeros of Jacobi polynomials, the considered system of linear and nonlinear integro-differential equations, with their associated initial conditions are reduced to linear and nonlinear systems of algebraic equations in the unknown expansion coefficients. Solving the resulting algebraic systems by Gaussian elimination and Newton's methods respectively, approximate solutions of the integro-differential problems are constructed. Detailed error analysis of the proposed methods is carried out to establish and ascertain the reliability and effectiveness of the methods. The methods are then tested on several examples, and the results are compared with those obtained via existing methods in the literature. The numerical results showed that the proposed methods are accurate, efficient, and reliable for solving all kinds of integro-differential equations.
