Solving Singular Two-Point Boundary Value Problems Using Continuous Genetic Algorithm

Table 14

The influence of the maximum nodal residual on the convergence speed and the corresponding error for Problem 3.

Max. nodal residual	Average generations	Average fitness	Average absolute error	Average absolute residual
0.1	116	0.73073861	9.53552997×10^−4	2.99179323×10^−2
0.01	194	0.98410064	2.45355430×10^−6	1.76659532×10^−4
0.001	355	0.99169030	1.70435356×10^−7	9.23300479×10^−5
0.0001	657	0.99970196	2.09730489×10^−8	6.31153089×10^−7
0.00001	809	0.99996292	2.64875409×10^−9	3.47078673×10^−8
0.000001	916	0.99999804	2.53687869×10^−10	5.95772308×10^−9
0.0000001	1022	0.99999899	2.35367806×10^−11	5.27732298×10^−11
0.00000001	1143	0.99999924	1.40500158×10^−11	3.79932887×10^−11
0.000000001	1181	0.99999946	8.50714082×10^−12	2.83187520×10^−11
0.0000000001	1195	0.99999951	5.71884849×10^−12	8.92419002×10^−12