On the Second Order Convergence of Brown's Derivative-Free Method for Solving Simultaneous Nonlinear Equations.

Abstract

In the paper the authors consider the system f(1)(x(1), x(2), ... ,x(N)) = 0, f(2)(x(1), x(2), ... , x(N)) = 0, 000, f(N)(x(1), x(2), ... , x(N)) = 0, or in vector notation as F(x) = 0. Here the authors assume that each f(i) is real-valued and continuously differentiable and that the x(i) are real; typically one may have N real, transcendental equations in N real unknowns. The problem of solving such a system of nonlinear equations falls conveniently into three subproblems, namely (a) proceeding from perhaps poor initial estimates in some regular fashion into a region of local convergence; (b) using a rapidly convergent, computationally efficient and stable algorithm local to the root; and (c) obtaining further solutions - different from those previously found - of the system. The authors concentrate their efforts on (b). (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0732796

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  • J. E. Dennis Jr.
  • Kenneth M. Brown

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  • Yale University

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