Simple approach of enlarging convergence regions of perturbation approximations

Nonlinear Dynamics

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 93-110

  Liao, Shi Jun ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RICCATI EQUATIONS;

ENLARGING CONVERGENCE REGION; HOMOTOPY ANALYSIS; TAYLOR THEOREM; VAN DER POL EQUATION;

CONFORMAL MAPPING;

EID: 0032653126     PISSN: 0924090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008373627897     Document Type: Article

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