CANM, a program for numerical solution of a system of nonlinear equations using the continuous analog of Newton's method

Abstract A FORTRAN program is presented which solves a system of nonlinear simultaneous equations using the continuous analog of Newton's method (CANM). The user has the option of either to provide a subroutine which calculates the Jacobian matrix or allow the program to calculate it by a forward-difference approximation. Five iterative schemes using different algorithms of determining adaptive step size of the CANM process are implemented in the program. Title of program: CANM Catalogue Id: ADSN_v1_0 Nature of problem A system of nonlinear simultaneous equations F i (x 1 ,x 2 ,...,x n )=0, 1