Research Article

A New Iterative Numerical Continuation Technique for Approximating the Solutions of Scalar Nonlinear Equations

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Evolution of the residue error of the function (), the approximation error of displacement (), and mechanical load () obtained with the new iterative numerical continuation algorithm (blue line; see (26)–(30) with ) for Example 1 with the parameters and and for different values of the parameter : (i) (blue solid line with upward-pointing triangles); (ii) (blue dotted line with pentagrams); (iii) (blue dash-dot line with plus signs); (iv) (blue dashed line with crosses).