Orthogonal spline collocation for nonlinear Dirichlet problems (Q2706378)

The authors consider the orthogonal spline collocation (OSC) method for the problem NEWLINE\[NEWLINELu= f(x),\quad x\in \Omega= (0,1)\times (0,1),\quad u|_{\partial\Omega}= 0,NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \(\partial\Omega\) is the boundary of \(\Omega\). \(L\) is the nonlinear differential operator NEWLINE\[NEWLINELu(x)= \sum^2_{i,j= 1} a_{ij}(x,u,\nabla u) u_{x_ix_j}+ a(x,u,\nabla u),NEWLINE\]NEWLINE \(x= (x_1,x_2)\) and \(\nabla u= (u_{x_1}, u_{x_2})\). The base functions are Hermite bicubic splines that vanish on \(\partial\Omega\). The collocation knots are deduced from the zeros \(\pm 1/\sqrt 3\) of the Legendre polynomial of degree 2.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe consistency of the OSC scheme in a discrete norm, the continuity of the Fréchet derivative of the OSC operator, the existence, uniqueness and error estimate for the OSC solution are proved. Also, a general result concerned with the problem is established. Finally, the quadratic convergence of Newton's method for the iterative solution is obtained (provided that the initial approximation lies sufficiently close to the OSC solution).