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Solving nonlinear third-order boundary value problems based-on boundary shape functions

  • Chein-Shan Liu and Jiang-Ren Chang EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: May 17, 2021

Abstract

For a third-order nonlinear boundary value problem (BVP), we develop two novel methods to find the solutions, satisfying boundary conditions automatically. A boundary shape function (BSF) is created to automatically satisfy the boundary conditions, which is then employed to develop new numerical algorithms by adopting two different roles of the free function in the BSF. In the first type algorithm, we let the BSF be the solution of the BVP and the free function be a new variable. In doing so, the nonlinear BVP is certainly and exactly transformed to an initial value problem for the new variable with its terminal values as unknown parameters, whereas the initial conditions are given. In the second type algorithm, let the free functions be a set of complete basis functions and the corresponding boundary shape functions be the new bases. Since the solution already satisfies the boundary conditions automatically, we can apply a simple collocation technique inside the domain to determine the expansion coefficients and then the solution is obtained. For the general higher-order boundary conditions, the BSF method (BSFM) can easily and quickly find a very accurate solution. Resorting on the BSFM, the existence of solution is proved, under the Lipschitz condition for the ordinary differential equation system of the new variable. Numerical examples, including the singularly perturbed ones, confirm the high performance of the BSF-based numerical algorithms.


Corresponding author: Jiang-Ren Chang, Department of Systems Engineering and Naval Architecture, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung 202-24, Taiwan, E-mail:

  1. Author contribution: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.

  2. Research funding: None declared.

  3. Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding this article.

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Received: 2020-05-20
Revised: 2021-02-04
Accepted: 2021-02-16
Published Online: 2021-05-17
Published in Print: 2022-12-16

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