Optimal boundary control of semilinear parabolic equations requires efficient solution methods in applications. Solution methods bypass the nonlinearity in different approaches. One approach can be quasilinearization (QL) but its applicability is locally in time. Nonetheless, consecutive applications of it can form a new method which is applicable globally in time. Dividing the control problem ...

In this paper we consider the nonlinear parabolic integro-differential equation with initial and boundary conditions. We develop the method of generalized quasilinearization to generate linear iterates that converge quadratically to the unique solution of the nonlinear parabolic integro-differential equation. For this purpose, we establish comparison results for the parabolic integro-differenti...

The method of upper and lower solutions and quasilinearization for nonlinear singular equations of the type −x(t) + λx(t) = f(t, x(t)), t ∈ (0, 1), subject to nonlocal three-point boundary conditions x(0) = δx(η), x(1) = 0, 0 < η < 1, are developed. Existence of a C1 positive solution is established. A monotone sequence of solutions of linear problems converging uniformly and rapidly to a solut...

The quasilinearization method (QLM) of solving nonlinear differential equations is applied to the quantum mechanics by casting the Schrödinger equation in the nonlinear Riccati form. The method, whose mathematical basis in physics was discussed recently by one of the present authors (VBM), approaches the solution of a nonlinear differential equation by approximating the nonlinear terms by a seq...