Scaling invariance theory and numerical transformation method: A unifying framework

In a transformation method, the numerical solution of a given boundary value problem is obtained by solving one or more related initial value problems. Therefore, a transformation method, like a shooting method, is an initial value method. The peculiar difference between a transformation and a shoot...

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Autor principal: Riccardo Fazio
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Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Sumario:In a transformation method, the numerical solution of a given boundary value problem is obtained by solving one or more related initial value problems. Therefore, a transformation method, like a shooting method, is an initial value method. The peculiar difference between a transformation and a shooting method is that the former is conceived and formulated within scaling invariance theory. The main aim of this paper is to propose a unifying framework for numerical transformation methods. The non-iterative method is an extension of the Töpfer’s non-iterative algorithm developed as a simple way to solve the celebrated Blasius problem. As many boundary value problems cannot be solved non-iteratively because they lack the required scaling invariance an iterative extension of the method has been developed. This iterative method provides a simple numerical test for the existence and uniqueness of solutions, as shown by this author in the case of free boundary problems [Appl. Anal., 66 (1997) pp. 89-100] and proved herewith for a wide class of boundary value problems defined on a semi-infinite interval.