Symmetry is a fundamental topic in many areas of physics and mathematics. Many problems from engineering and mathematics possess symmetry, which can be transformed into the nonlinear systems
. Some nonlinear ODEs and PDEs can be discretized into nonlinear systems. Using the iterative method to solve these nonlinear systems, we can find the numerical solution of ODEs and PDEs. Newton’s method [
1,
2] is the oldest and famous iterative method for the numerical solution of nonlinear systems,
where
is the Jacobin matrix. Newton’s method is one-point iterative method, which is convergent quadratically. Any one-point iterative method which is constructed by
F and its first
derivatives cannot get higher order than
r. Researchers try to improve the computational efficiency of one-point method by different ways. One effective way is to increase the iteration step of iterative method. This kind of methods are called multistep or multipoint iterative methods. It has better efficiency than one-point iterative method. For example, based on a quadrature formulae, Darvishi et al. [
3] suggested an efficient multipoint method with order four that requires two
F, two matrix inversions and three
. Grau-Sánchez et al. [
4] proposed a variant of Ostrowski’s method, which needs two matrix inversions, three
F, two
and one first-order divided difference. Using the pseudocompostion technique, Cordero et al. [
5] presented a sixth-order Jarratt-type method that uses three
, two matrix inversions and three
F. They [
6] also presented a four-step eighth-order method that requires the same computational cost as their sixth-order Jarratt-type method. Using the weight function technique, Sharma and Arora [
7] suggested a Jarratt-type method with order six, which requires one matrix inversion, three
F and two
. Behl and Cordero [
8] designed a sixth-order scheme that needs two matrix inversions, two
F and one first-order divided difference. Behl and Arora [
9] proposed a derivative-free scheme with order seven for solving nonlinear systems, which needs one matrix inversion, five
F and two first-order divided differences. Using the interpolation technique, we [
10] obtained a seventh-order method that is extendible to solve nonlinear systems. This method requires three matrix inversions, four
F and five first-order divided differences. We [
11] also obtained another seventh-order fixed-point method that needs one matrix inversion, five
F and three first-order divided differences. Sharma and Aroa [
12] obtained a seventh-order derivative-free method. This method requires two matrix inversions, four
F and five first-order divided differences. Using the undetermined parameter technique, Narang et al. [
13] designed a seventh-order method, which needs one matrix inversion, three
F and two first-order divided differences per iteration.
Many efficient multipoint iterative methods for solving nonlinear equations have been proposed, see [
14,
15,
16,
17,
18,
19,
20]. However, not all multipoint iterative methods can be extended to solve nonlinear systems. Therefore, it is an interesting research to construct multipoint iterative method for solving systems of nonlinear equations. Ham and Chun [
14] proposed the following fifth-order method for solving nonlinear equations
which is called Ham-Chun’s method. We generalize Ham-Chun’s method to Banach space to solve nonlinear systems and obtain the following iterative scheme
where
and
. Method (3) is called HM5 in this paper, which requires two
F, two matrix inversions and two
per iteration. Method HM5 is not the fixed-point iterative method, so its computational efficiency is low.
In this paper, we propose an eighth-order fixed-point iterative method for the numerical solution of nonlinear systems. First, we prove the order of convergence of method HM5 in
Section 2. Inspired by method HM5, we propose an eighth-order fixed-point method by using the undetermined parameter method in
Section 3. The proposed method requires one LU decomposition per iteration, which means that this method has low computational cost. The computational efficiency of iterative method is analyzed in
Section 4. The proposed method is used to solve the solution of nonlinear systems, nonlinear ODEs and PDEs in
Section 5.
Section 6 gives a short conclusion.