Solutions of Emden–Fowler equations by homotopy-perturbation methods

• Main Authors: Chowdhury, Md. Sazzad Hossien, Hashim, Ishak
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2009
• Subjects: QA76 Computer software
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/6656/1/Solutions_of_Emden%E2%80%93Fowler_equations_by_homotopy-perturbation_method.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/6656/; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1468121807001599

In this paper, approximate and/or exact analytical solutions of the generalized Emden–Fowler type equations in the second-order ordinary differential equations (ODEs) are obtained by homotopy-perturbation method (HPM). The homotopy-perturbation method (HPM) is a coupling of the perturbation method and the homotopy method. The main feature of the HPM is that it deforms a difficult problem into a set of problems which are easier to solve. In this work, HPM yields solutions in convergent series forms with easily computable terms, and in some cases, only one iteration leads to the high accuracy of the solutions. Comparisons with the exact solutions and the solutions obtained by the Adomian decomposition method (ADM) show the efficiency of HPM in solving equations with singularity.