The accelerated search-extension method for computing multiple solutions of semilinear PDEs

In this paper, we propose an accelerated search-extension method (ASEM) based on the interpolated coefficient finite element method, the search-extension method (SEM) and the two-grid method to obtain the multiple solutions for semilinear elliptic equations. This strategy is not only successfully implemented to obtain multiple solutions for a class of semilinear elliptic boundary value problems, but also reduces the expensive computation greatly. The numerical results in 1-D and 2-D cases will show the efficiency of our approach.