A second-order pseudo-transient method for steady-state problems

This article gives a second pseudo-transient method for a special system of nonlinear equations, which arises from chemical reaction rate equations. This method uses a special second-order Rosenbrock method as the discrete difference scheme, which satisfies a linear conservation law. Moreover, it adaptively adjusts the time step in inverse proportion to an arithmetic mean of the current residual and the previous residual at every iteration step. For a singular system of nonlinear equations, under some standard assumptions, local convergence of the new method is addressed. Finally, some promise numerical results are also reported. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.