A QUASI-NEWTON METHOD USING DIRECTIONAL DERIVATIVES FOR NONLINEAR EQUATIONS

Many problems arising in science and engineering require the numerical solution of a system of n nonlinear equations in n unknowns: (1) given F : $R^{n}$ $\rightarrow$ $R^{n}$ , find $x_{*}$ $\epsilon$ $R^{n}$ / such that F($x_{*}$) = 0. Nonlinear problems are generally solved by iteration. Davidson [3] and Broyden [1] introduced the methods which had led to a large amount of research and a class of algorithm. This work has been called by the quasi-Newton methods, secant updates, or modification methods. Newton's method is the classical method for the problem (1) and quasi-Newton methods have been proposed to circumvent computational disadvantages of Newton's method.(omitted)