My implemetation for Newton's method doesn't seem to be working

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My goal is to solve the following set of nonlinear equations:
for this I use the Newton method in the form:
The code to define my equations is given by:
function Fn=f_test(x)
Fn=[x(1)^2-x(2)+x(3)^3-26;x(1)+x(2)+x(3)-6;x(1)^2+x(2)^3-x(3)^2];
The code to compute the Jacobian is given by:
function [J]=mat_jac(x,f)
% computes the Jacobian of a function
n=length(x);
eps=1e-5; % could be made better
J = zeros(n,n);
T=zeros(1,n);
for i=1:n
T(i)=1;
x_plus = x+eps*T;
x_minus = x-eps*T;
J(:,i) = (f_test(x_plus)-f_test(x_minus))/(2*eps);
T(i)=0;
end
My test script is given by:
%This tests the algorithm
x=[0.5 0.5 0.5];
x_old=x';
end_error=1e-5;
error=10;
while (error>end_error)
J=mat_jac(x_old',f_test(x_old'));
F=-f_test(x_old);
dx=linsolve(J,F);
x_new=x_old+dx;
x_old=x_new;
error=norm(f_test(x_old));
end
The solution to these equations is x=1,y=2,z=3 and I'm starting the search off at x=0.5,y=0.5,z=0.5. I know my jacobian is correct as I've checked it and my Newton's method looks correct so I don't know where I'm going wrong. Any suggestions?
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Jan
Jan on 6 Jan 2022
You forgot to mention, what the problem is. Why do you assume that there is something wrong?
Matthew Hunt
Matthew Hunt on 7 Jan 2022
Oh, sorry, the answer diverges rather than converges. Even when you're close to the solution it tends to infinity.

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Jan
Jan on 11 Jan 2022
I've cleanup the code, e.g. removed the not needed "x_old". Avoid using the names of important Matlab functions as variables: eps, error. Avoid mixing row and column vectors frequently, but just work with column vectors in general.
Finally, it does converge.
x = [0.5; 0.5; 0.5];
limit = 1e-5;
err = 10;
loop = 0;
while err > limit
J = mat_jac(x, @f_test); % 2nd argument is not f_test(x)
F = f_test(x);
x = x - J \ F;
err = norm(f_test(x))
loop = loop + 1;
if loop == 1e5
error('Does not converge!');
end
end
err = 1.1332e+03
err = 334.4893
err = 135.1517
err = 97.7923
err = 52.6326
err = 317.6439
err = 7.0341e+04
err = 2.0854e+04
err = 6.1628e+03
err = 1.8123e+03
err = 526.0138
err = 147.4260
err = 37.6927
err = 7.6553
err = 0.9596
err = 0.0499
err = 2.4892e-04
err = 6.4461e-09
function J = mat_jac(x, f)
n = length(x);
v = 1e-8;
J = zeros(n, n);
T = zeros(n, 1);
for i=1:n
T(i) = 1;
J(:, i) = (f(x + v * T) - f(x - v * T)) / (2 * v);
T(i) = 0;
end
end
function Fn = f_test(x)
Fn = [x(1)^2 - x(2) + x(3)^3 - 26; ...
x(1) + x(2) + x(3) - 6; ...
x(1)^2 + x(2)^3 - x(3)^2];
end
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Matthew Hunt
Matthew Hunt on 11 Jan 2022
The strange thing that the next day when I tried it, it worked! I used as an initial guess for initially and it started working, and as I increased epsilon, it began to work and then when I went to the old settings again, it still worked. Very odd.
As for the x_old variable, I prefer it that way.

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