The method of quasilinearization of Bellman and Kalaba [2] has been extended, refined, and generalized when the forcing function is the sum of a convex and concave function using coupled lower and upper solutions. This method is now known as the method of generalized quasilinearization. It has all the advantages of the quasilinearization method such that the iterates are solutions of linear sys...

Piecewise quasilinearization methods for singular boundary-value problems in second-order ordinary differential equations are presented. These methods result in linear constant-coefficients ordinary differential equations which can be integrated analytically, thus yielding piecewise analytical solutions. The accuracy of the globally smooth piecewise quasilinear method is assessed by comparisons...

In this paper, we have proposed a Haar wavelet quasilinearization method to solve the well known Blasius equation. The method is based on the uniform Haar wavelet operational matrix defined over the interval [0, 1]. In this method, we have proposed the transformation for converting the problem on a fixed computational domain. The Blasius equation arises in the various boundary layer problems of...

The general conditions under which the quadratic, uniform and monotonic convergence in the quasilinearization method of solving nonlinear ordinary differential equations could be proved are formulated and elaborated. The generalization of the proof to partial differential equations is straight forward. The method, whose mathematical basis in physics was discussed recently by one of the present ...

The general conditions under which the quadratic, uniform and monotonic convergence in the quasilinearization method could be proved are formulated and elaborated. The method, whose mathematical basis in physics was discussed recently by one of the present authors (VBM), approximates the solution of a nonlinear differential equation by treating the nonlinear terms as a perturbation about the li...

This paper presents a numerical method based on quasilinearization and rationalized Haar functions for solving nonlinear optimal control problems including terminal state constraints, state and control inequality constraints. The optimal control problem is converted into a sequence of quadratic programming problems. The rationalized Haar functions with unknown coefficients are used to approxima...

We propose a new two-grid approach based on Bellman-Kalaba quasilinearization [6] and Axelsson [4]-Xu [30] finite element two-grid method for the solution of singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion equations. The algorithms involve solving one inexpensive problem on coarse grid and solving on fine grid one linear problem obtained by quasilinearization of the differential equation about an inter...

The generalized quasilinearization method is applied to the threepoint boundary value problems on time scales, and two sequences could be constructed which converge uniformly to the unique solution and the convergence is quadratic. AMS Subject Classification: 34B10, 34B15