Abstract
In this study, our principle aim is to provide some novel eighth and sixteenth-order families of King's method for solving nonlinear equations which should be superior than the existing schemes of same order. The relevant optimal orders of the proposed families satisfy the classical Kung-Traub conjecture which was made in 1974. The derivations of the proposed scheines are based on the weight function and rational approximation approaches, respectively. In addition, convergence properties of the proposed families are fully investigated along with one lemma and two main theorems describing their order of convergence. We consider a concrete variety of real life problems e.g. the trajectory of an electron in the air gap between two parallel plates, chemical engineering problem, Van der Waal's equation which explains the behavior of a real gas by introducing in the ideal gas equations and fractional conversion in a chemical reactor, in order to check the validity, applicability and effectiveness of our proposed methods. Further, it is found from the numerical results that our proposed methods perform better than the existing ones of the same order when the accuracy is checked in the multi precision digits. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.