Applied Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 6, 2012, no. 8, 357 – 367 Numerical Solution of Deformation Equations in Homotopy Analysis Method J. Izadian and M. MohammadzadeAttar Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran M. Jalili Department of Mathematics, Neyshabur Branch, Islamic Azad University, Neyshabur, Iran
[email protected] Abstract In this paper, we consider the homtopy analysis method (HAM) for solving nonlinear ordinary differential equation with boundary conditions. The partial sum of solution series is determined using finite difference method and spectral method. These methods are used for solving deformation equation. For improving the rate of convergence, we apply the methods of Marinca and Niu-Wang. The results are compared with finite difference method and spectral method. Unlike HAM, these methods don’t need convergence control parameter. Numerical experiments show efficiency and performance of proposed methods. Keywords: Homotopy analysis method, Deformation equation, Spectral method, Finite difference method 1 Introduction Ordinary differential equations with boundary conditions (BVP) are very important in various domains of sciences and engineering. In most cases, it is very complicated to achieve analytic solutions of these equations. Numerical finite difference methods and spectral methods can be used for solving certain types of these problems with applying nonlinear equation solvers as Newton's methods 358 J. Izadian, M. MohammadzadeAttar and M. Jalili [7,8], but these techniques are valid only for weakly nonlinear problems. Recently, homotopy analysis method (HAM) has been successfully applied to various types of these problems. In 2003, Liao published the book [1] in which he summarized the basic ideas of the homotopy analysis method and gave the details of his approach both in the theory and on a large number of practical examples and in a series of papers [2-4,9], he developed HAM.