NAME¶

newton -- Newton nonlinear algorithm

DESCRIPTION¶

Nonlinear Newton algorithm for the resolution of the following problem:

       F(u) = 0
 

A simple call to the algorithm writes:

    my_problem P;
    field uh (Vh);
    newton (P, uh, tol, max_iter);
 

The my_problem class may contains methods for the evaluation of F (aka residue) and its derivative:

    class my_problem {
    public:
      my_problem();
      field residue (const field& uh) const;
      void update_derivative (const field& uh) const;
      field derivative_solve (const field& mrh) const;
      Float norm (const field& uh) const;
      Float dual_norm (const field& Muh) const;
    };
 

See the example p-laplacian.h in the user's documentation for more.

IMPLEMENTATION¶

template <class Problem, class Field>
int newton (Problem P, Field& uh, Float& tol, size_t& max_iter, odiststream *p_derr = 0) {
    if (p_derr) *p_derr << "# Newton: n r" << std::endl;
    for (size_t n = 0; true; n++) {
      Field rh = P.residue(uh);
      Float r = P.dual_norm(rh);
      if (p_derr) *p_derr << n << " " << r << std::endl;
      if (r <= tol) { tol = r; max_iter = n; return 0; }
      if (n == max_iter) { tol = r; return 1; }
      P.update_derivative (uh);
      Field delta_uh = P.derivative_solve (-rh);
      uh += delta_uh;
    }
}