A class of two-stage iterative methods for systems of weakly nonlinear equations

The discretizations of many differential equations by the finite difference or the finite element methods can often result in a class of System of weakly nonlinear equations. In this paper, by applying the two-stage iteration technique and in accordance with the special properties of this weakly nonlinear system, we first propose a general two-stage iterative method through the two-stage splitting of the system matrix. Then, by applying the accelerated overrelaxation (AOR) technique of the linear iterative methods, we present a two-stage AOR method, which particularly uses the AOR iteration as the inner iteration and is substantially a relaxed variant of the afore-presented method. For these two classes of methods, we establish their local convergence theories, and precisely estimate their asymptotic convergence factors under some suitable assumptions when the involved nonlinear mapping is only B-differentiable. When the system matrix is either a monotone matrix or an H-matrix, and the nonlinear mapping is a P-bounded mapping, we thoroughly set up the global convergence theories of these new methods. Moreover, under the assumptions that the system matrix is monotone and the nonlinear mapping is isotone, we discuss the monotone convergence properties of the new two-stage iteration methods, and investigate the influence of the matrix splittings as well as the relaxation parameters on the convergence behaviours of these methods. Numerical computations show that our new methods are feasible and efficient for solving the system of weakly nonlinear equations.