id: 05969224 dt: j an: 05969224 au: Li, Tiexiang; Chu, Eric King-Wah; Juang, Jong; Lin, Wen-Wei ti: Solution of a nonsymmetric algebraic Riccati equation from a one-dimensional multistate transport model. so: IMA J. Numer. Anal. 31, No. 4, 1453-1467 (2011). py: 2011 pu: Oxford University Press, Oxford la: EN cc: ut: algebraic Riccati equation; doubling algorithm; fixed-point iteration; Newton’s method; reflection; transport theory ci: li: doi:10.1093/imanum/drq034 ab: Summary: For the steady-state solution of a differential equation from a one-dimensional multistate model in transport theory, we shall derive and study a nonsymmetric algebraic Riccati equation $B^{ - } - XF^{ - } - F^{+}X + XB^{+}X = 0$, where $F ^{\pm } \equiv (I - F)D ^{\pm }$ and $B ^{\pm } \equiv BD ^{\pm }$ with positive diagonal matrices $D ^{\pm }$ and possibly low-ranked matrices $F$ and $B$. We prove the existence of the minimal positive solution $X^{*}$ under a set of physically reasonable assumptions and study its numerical computation by fixed-point iteration, Newton’s method and the doubling algorithm. We shall also study several special cases. For example when $B$ and $F$ are low ranked then $X^*=\varGamma \circ \left (\sum^4_{i=1}U_iV_i^{\text T}\right )$ with low-ranked $U_{i}$ and $V_{i}$ that can be computed using more efficient iterative processes. Numerical examples will be given to illustrate our theoretical results. rv: