Numerical methods for coupled systems of nonlinear parabolic boundary value problems

DOI10.1016/0022-247X(90)90167-EMaRDI QIDQ750098zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 1990

Published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-247x(90)90167-e

convergence coupled system of nonlinear equations finite difference equations method of upper-lower solutions reaction-diffusion equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) Numerical computation of solutions to systems of equations (65H10) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M12)

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The coupled system of nonlinear equations \(u_ t-D^{(1)}\nabla^ 2u=f^{(1)}(x,t,u,v),\) \(v_ t-D^{(2)}\nabla^ 2v=f^{(2)}(x,t,u,v),\) (t\(\in [0,T]\), \(x\in \Omega)\) with the initial- boundary conditions \(\alpha^{(1)}\partial u/\partial \mu +\beta^{(1)}u=g^{(1)}(x,t),\alpha^{(2)}\partial v/\partial \nu +\beta^{(2)}v=g^{(2)}(x,t),\) \(u(x,0)=\psi^{(1)}_{(x)},\) \(v(x,0)=\psi^{(2)}(x)\) is considered. Here \(\Omega\) is a bounded domain in \(R^ p\), \(D^{(\ell)}\equiv D^{(\ell)}(x,t)>0\), \(\alpha^{(\ell)}=\alpha^{(\ell)}(x)\geq 0\), \(\beta^{(\ell)}=\beta^{(\ell)}(x)\geq 0\) with \(\alpha^{(\ell)}+\beta^{(\ell)}>0\) on \(\partial \Omega\) and \(f^{(\ell)}\), \(g^{(\ell)}\), \(\psi^{(\ell)}\) are Hölder continuous functions of their respective arguments. Using the method of upper-lower solutions monotone sequences for the finite difference equations are constructed. The convergence of the finite difference solution to the differential solution as the mesh size decreases to zero is proved.

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