Quasilinearization–Barycentric Approach for Numerical Investigation of the Boundary Value Fin Problem

In this paper we improve the quasilinearization method by barycentric Lagrange interpolation because of its numerical stability and computation speed to achieve a stable semi analytical solution. Then we applied the improved method for solving the Fin problem which is a nonlinear equation that occurs in the heat transferring. In the quasilinearization approach the nonlinear differential equation is treated by approximating the nonlinear terms by a sequence of linear expressions. The modified QLM is iterative but not perturbative and gives stable semi analytical solutions to nonlinear problems without depending on the existence of a smallness parameter. Comparison with some numerical solutions shows that the present solution is applicable.

• Alireza Rezaei
• Fatemeh Baharifard
• Kourosh Parand

• Quasilinearization method
• Barycentric lagrange interpolation
• nonlinear ODE
• fin problem
• heat transfer.

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