Asymptotic expansions and numerical approximation of nonlinear degenerate boundary-value problems

DOI10.1016/S0168-9274(98)00087-7MaRDI QIDQ1294560zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors K. Appert

Publication date 11 January 2000

Published in Applied Numerical Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0168-9274(98)00087-7

zbMATH Keywords

algorithmasymptotic expansionsextrapolation methodsfinite differencesgeneralized Emden-Fowler equationsnumerical resultsPicard iterationsingular boundary-value problems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singular nonlinear boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations (34B16) Numerical solution of boundary value problems involving ordinary differential equations (65L10) Finite difference and finite volume methods for ordinary differential equations (65L12)

Review text

This paper is concerned with the numerical solution of boundary-value problems for the generalized Emden-Fowler equation \(y(x) + c x^p y(x)^q = 0, x \in[0,1]\) with \(y(0)=1, y(1)=0\). Here \(c,p,q\) are real constants, \( p \in (-2,-1), q>1,\) and \(c<0\). The approach proposed by the authors combines a Picard iteration in which the step \(y_{\nu -1}(x) \to y_{\nu}(x)\) satisfies the linear equation \( y_{\nu} + c q x^q y_{\nu} = - c x^p ( y_{\nu-1}^q - q y_{\nu-1})\) together with finite differences and extrapolation. In order to justify the extrapolation, asymptotic expansions for the Picard iterates around the two end points have been obtained. It is shown that these expansions depend crucially on the fact that \( (p+2)^{-1}\) is an integer or not. Taking into account these results, extrapolation was used to approximate the solution in the cases \((p,q,c)=(-1.5, 2.5, -1), (-1.7, 2.7, -1), (-1.4, 1, -0.6)\). Furthermore a change of the independent variable has been considered to improve the performance of the algorithm. Finally some numerical results are presented to show the improvement of the new method over the standard finite-difference technique for several grids.

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