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Recent literature reports two sectional techniques, the finite volume method [Das et al., 2020, SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 42(6): B1570-B1598] and the fixed pivot technique [Kushwah et al., 2023, Commun. Nonlinear Sci. Numer. Simul., 121(37):…
The Zarantonello fixed-point iteration is an established linearization scheme for quasilinear PDEs with strongly monotone and Lipschitz continuous nonlinearity in Hilbert spaces. This paper presents a weighted least-squares minimization for…
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