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On Monotone and Schwarz Alternating Methods for Nonlinear Elliptic PDEs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2002

Shiu-Hong Lui
Shiu-Hong Lui*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong. (shlui@ust.hk)
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Abstract

The Schwarz alternating method can be used to solve elliptic boundary value problems on domains which consist of two or more overlapping subdomains. The solution is approximated by an infinite sequence of functions which results from solving a sequence of elliptic boundary value problems in each of the subdomains. In this paper, proofs of convergence of some Schwarz alternating methods for nonlinear elliptic problems which are known to have solutions by the monotone method (also known as the method of subsolutions and supersolutions) are given. In particular, an additive Schwarz method for scalar as well as some coupled nonlinear PDEs are shown to converge for finitely many subdomains. These results are applicable to several models in population biology.

Keywords

Domain decompositionnonlinear elliptic PDESchwarz alternating methodmonotone methodssubsolutionsupersolution.
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Research Article
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ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , January 2001 , pp. 1 - 15
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© EDP Sciences, SMAI, 2001

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