Nonlinear solvers

This is a collection of general-purpose nonlinear multidimensional solvers. These solvers find x for which F(x) = 0. Both x and F can be multidimensional.

Routines

Large-scale nonlinear solvers:

newton_krylov(F, xin[, iter, rdiff, method, ...])	Find a root of a function, using Krylov approximation for inverse Jacobian.
anderson(F, xin[, iter, alpha, w0, M, ...])	Find a root of a function, using (extended) Anderson mixing.

General nonlinear solvers:

broyden1(F, xin[, iter, alpha, ...])	Find a root of a function, using Broyden’s first Jacobian approximation.
broyden2(F, xin[, iter, alpha, ...])	Find a root of a function, using Broyden’s second Jacobian approximation.

Simple iterations:

excitingmixing(F, xin[, iter, alpha, ...])	Find a root of a function, using a tuned diagonal Jacobian approximation.
linearmixing(F, xin[, iter, alpha, verbose, ...])	Find a root of a function, using a scalar Jacobian approximation.
diagbroyden(F, xin[, iter, alpha, verbose, ...])	Find a root of a function, using diagonal Broyden Jacobian approximation.

Examples

Small problem

>>> def F(x):
...    return np.cos(x) + x[::-1] - [1, 2, 3, 4]
>>> import scipy.optimize
>>> x = scipy.optimize.broyden1(F, [1,1,1,1], f_tol=1e-14)
>>> x
array([ 4.04674914,  3.91158389,  2.71791677,  1.61756251])
>>> np.cos(x) + x[::-1]
array([ 1.,  2.,  3.,  4.])

Large problem

Suppose that we needed to solve the following integrodifferential equation on the square \([0,1]\times[0,1]\):

\[\nabla^2 P = 10 \left(\int_0^1\int_0^1\cosh(P)\,dx\,dy\right)^2\]

with \(P(x,1) = 1\) and \(P=0\) elsewhere on the boundary of the square.

The solution can be found using the newton_krylov solver:

import numpy as np
from scipy.optimize import newton_krylov
from numpy import cosh, zeros_like, mgrid, zeros

# parameters
nx, ny = 75, 75
hx, hy = 1./(nx-1), 1./(ny-1)

P_left, P_right = 0, 0
P_top, P_bottom = 1, 0

def residual(P):
    d2x = zeros_like(P)
    d2y = zeros_like(P)

    d2x[1:-1] = (P[2:]   - 2*P[1:-1] + P[:-2]) / hx/hx
    d2x[0]    = (P[1]    - 2*P[0]    + P_left)/hx/hx
    d2x[-1]   = (P_right - 2*P[-1]   + P[-2])/hx/hx

    d2y[:,1:-1] = (P[:,2:] - 2*P[:,1:-1] + P[:,:-2])/hy/hy
    d2y[:,0]    = (P[:,1]  - 2*P[:,0]    + P_bottom)/hy/hy
    d2y[:,-1]   = (P_top   - 2*P[:,-1]   + P[:,-2])/hy/hy

    return d2x + d2y - 10*cosh(P).mean()**2

# solve
guess = zeros((nx, ny), float)
sol = newton_krylov(residual, guess, method='lgmres', verbose=1)
print('Residual: %g' % abs(residual(sol)).max())

# visualize
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
x, y = mgrid[0:1:(nx*1j), 0:1:(ny*1j)]
plt.pcolor(x, y, sol)
plt.colorbar()
plt.show()

(Source code)