Numerical solutions of coupled systems of nonlinear elliptic equations (Q2885165)

For a system of nonlinear elliptic equations (containing linear differential operators, and coupled through the right-hands which are nonlinear and may be monotonously increasing in a part of the unknown functions and monotonously decreasing in the remaining unknowns), the author investigates a boundary value problem with Dirichlet boundary values in a bounded domain of \(\mathbb R^d\). He assumes that the finite difference discretization leads to an M-matrix and proves convergence of a monotone iterative process improving upper and lower solutions (taking here also account of a non-overlapping Dirichlet-Dirichlet domain decomposition). As an application, a two-dimensional problem for 2 unknown functions is considered (connected to a non-isothermal chemical process) and iteration numbers are reported to reach prescribed accuracies, for several different physical and numerical parameters.