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Publication date: 29 March 2022

Litika Rani and Munish Kansal

The purpose of this article is to develop and analyze a new derivative-free class of higher-order iterative methods for locating multiple roots numerically.

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this article is to develop and analyze a new derivative-free class of higher-order iterative methods for locating multiple roots numerically.

Design/methodology/approach

The scheme is generated by using King-type iterative methods. By employing the Traub-Steffensen technique, the proposed class is designed into the derivative-free family.

Findings

The proposed class requires three functional evaluations at each stage of computation to attain fourth-order convergency. Moreover, it can be observed that the theoretical convergency results of family are symmetrical for particular cases of multiplicity of zeros. This further motivates the authors to present the result in general, which confirms the convergency order of the methods. It is also worth mentioning that the authors can obtain already existing methods as particular cases of the family for some suitable choice of free disposable parameters. Finally, the authors include a wide variety of benchmark problems like van der Waals's equation, Planck's radiation law and clustered root problem. The numerical comparisons are included with several existing algorithms to confirm the applicability and effectiveness of the proposed methods.

Originality/value

The numerical results demonstrate that the proposed scheme performs better than the existing methods in terms of CPU timing and absolute residual errors.

Article
Publication date: 27 July 2021

Manpreet Kaur, Sanjeev Kumar and Munish Kansal

The purpose of the article is to construct a new class of higher-order iterative techniques for solving scalar nonlinear problems.

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of the article is to construct a new class of higher-order iterative techniques for solving scalar nonlinear problems.

Design/methodology/approach

The scheme is generalized by using the power-mean notion. By applying Neville's interpolating technique, the methods are formulated into the derivative-free approaches. Further, to enhance the computational efficiency, the developed iterative methods have been extended to the methods with memory, with the aid of the self-accelerating parameter.

Findings

It is found that the presented family is optimal in terms of Kung and Traub conjecture as it evaluates only five functions in each iteration and attains convergence order sixteen. The proposed family is examined on some practical problems by modeling into nonlinear equations, such as chemical equilibrium problems, beam positioning problems, eigenvalue problems and fractional conversion in a chemical reactor. The obtained results confirm that the developed scheme works more adequately as compared to the existing methods from the literature. Furthermore, the basins of attraction of the different methods have been included to check the convergence in the complex plane.

Originality/value

The presented experiments show that the developed schemes are of great benefit to implement on real-life problems.

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Engineering Computations, vol. 39 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-4401

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Article
Publication date: 17 November 2021

Mehdi Dehghan, Baharak Hooshyarfarzin and Mostafa Abbaszadeh

This study aims to use the polynomial approximation method based on the Pascal polynomial basis for obtaining the numerical solutions of partial differential equations. Moreover…

Abstract

Purpose

This study aims to use the polynomial approximation method based on the Pascal polynomial basis for obtaining the numerical solutions of partial differential equations. Moreover, this method does not require establishing grids in the computational domain.

Design/methodology/approach

In this study, the authors present a meshfree method based on Pascal polynomial expansion for the numerical solution of the Sobolev equation. In general, Sobolev-type equations have several applications in physics and mechanical engineering.

Findings

The authors use the Crank-Nicolson scheme to discrete the time variable and the Pascal polynomial-based (PPB) method for discretizing the spatial variables. But it is clear that increasing the value of the final time or number of time steps, will bear a lot of costs during numerical simulations. An important purpose of this paper is to reduce the execution time for applying the PPB method. To reach this aim, the proper orthogonal decomposition technique has been combined with the PPB method.

Originality/value

The developed procedure is tested on various examples of one-dimensional, two-dimensional and three-dimensional versions of the governed equation on the rectangular and irregular domains to check its accuracy and validity.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 32 no. 7
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Article
Publication date: 1 January 1980

WINFRIED GÖDERT

In this paper we will try to reach a twofold goal. First we will give an analysis of mathematical terminology in order to give practical hints for assigning subject headings to a…

Abstract

In this paper we will try to reach a twofold goal. First we will give an analysis of mathematical terminology in order to give practical hints for assigning subject headings to a book. Secondly, we will propose a method which could be helpful for the subject analysis of a given document. The main basis for this method is the connection between a special classification scheme, the Subject Classification Scheme of the American Mathematical Society, and the task of indexing books by subject headings. Examples of this method are given, and they are compared with Library of Congress Subject Headings and PRECIS entries. With both the study of the terminology and the proposed method, it should be possible to increase quality and consistency of the library indexing results for mathematical books. A thesaurus for mathematics with entries along the lines of the PRECIS rules and connected with the subject classification scheme of the American Mathematical Society, would be desirable, as would the printing of appropriate classification data, assigned to them by their authors, inside the books.

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Journal of Documentation, vol. 36 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0022-0418

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