Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2013

Keywords

LU factorization, Separable nonlinear equations

Abstract

Separable nonlinear equations have the form F(y,z) ≡ A (y)z + b(y) = 0, where the matrix A(y)∈ R m × N and the vector b(y) ∈ Rmare continuously differentiable functions of y Rn and z RN. We assume that mN + n, and F'(y,z) has full rank. We present a numerical method to compute the solution (y∗, z∗) for fully determined systems (m = N+ n) and compatible overdetermined systems (m > N+ n). Our method reduces the original system to a smaller system f(y) = 0 of mNn equations in y alone. The iterative process to solve the smaller system only requires the LU factorization of one m × m matrix per step, and the convergence is quadratic. Once y∗ has been obtained, z∗ is computed by direct solution of a linear system. Details of the numerical implementation are provided and several examples are presented.

Publication Title

ISRN Mathematical Analysis

Volume

2013

Issue

Article ID 258072

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/258072

Required Publisher's Statement

Published by Hindawi Publishing Corporation

http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/258072

Comments

Copyright © 2013 Y.-Q. Shen and T. J. Ypma. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Subjects - Topical (LCSH)

Factorization (Mathematics); Differential equations, Nonlinear

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English

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