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THE ACCELERATED SEARCH-EXTENSION METHOD FOR COMPUTING MULTIPLE SOLUTIONS OF SEMILINEAR PDEs

  • LIU Ti-Wu ,
  • XIE Zi-Qing ,
  • CHEN Chuan-Miao
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  • 1.Key Laboratory of Computational and Stochastic Mathematics and Its Applications, Universities of Hunan Province, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 410081, China|2.College of Science, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha 410128, China

Received date: 2008-12-29

  Online published: 2009-07-20

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This reseach was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (10571053, 10871066, 10811120282), Programme for New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET-06-0712)

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an accelerated search-extension method (ASEM)based on the interpolated coefficient finite element method, the search-extension method (SEM) and the two-grid method to obtain the multiple solutions for semilinear elliptic equations. This strategy is not only successfully implemented to obtain multiple solutions for a class of semilinear elliptic boundary value problems, but also reduces the expensive computation greatly. The numerical results in 1-D and 2-D cases will show the efficiency of our approach.

Cite this article

LIU Ti-Wu , XIE Zi-Qing , CHEN Chuan-Miao . THE ACCELERATED SEARCH-EXTENSION METHOD FOR COMPUTING MULTIPLE SOLUTIONS OF SEMILINEAR PDEs[J]. Acta mathematica scientia, Series B, 2009 , 29(4) : 803 -816 . DOI: 10.1016/S0252-9602(09)60071-0

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