A NUMERICAL APPROACH TO FIND POSITIVE SOLUTIONS OF A SEMILINEAR ELLIPTIC EQUATION

S. Khademloo (Iran) and G. A. Afrouzi (Iran)

Received August 7, 2008

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Keywords and phrases: elliptic boundary value problems, multiple solutions, finite difference method, interpolation formula.