Chin. Phys. Lett.  2008, Vol. 25 Issue (2): 589-592    DOI:
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Solutions of Heat-Like and Wave-Like Equations with Variable Coefficients by Means of the Homotopy Analysis Method
A. K. Alomari;M. S. M. Noorani;R. Nazar
School of Mathematical Sciences, University Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 UKM Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia
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A. K. Alomari, M. S. M. Noorani, R. Nazar 2008 Chin. Phys. Lett. 25 589-592
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Abstract We employ the homotopy analysis method (HAM) to obtain approximate analytical solutions to the heat-like and wave-like equations. The HAM contains the auxiliary parameter h, which provides a convenient way of controlling the convergence region of series solutions. The analysis is
accompanied by several linear and nonlinear heat-like and wave-like equations with initial boundary value problems. The results obtained prove that HAM is very effective and simple with less error than the Adomian decomposition method and the variational iteration method.
Keywords: 44.05.+e      44.20.+b      44.27.+g     
Received: 25 October 2007      Published: 30 January 2008
PACS:  44.05.+e (Analytical and numerical techniques)  
  44.20.+b (Boundary layer heat flow)  
  44.27.+g (Forced convection)  
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