Approximate solution of a differential equation arising in astrophysics using the variational iteration method

New Astronomy

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 53-59

  Dehghan, Mehdi ^a   Shakeri, Fatemeh ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Astrophysics; The Lane Emden equation; Variational iteration method

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; LINEARIZATION; POISSON EQUATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ITERATION TECHNIQUES; LANE-EMDEN EQUATION; MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS; VARIATIONAL ITERATION METHOD;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 34548509029     PISSN: 13841076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.newast.2007.06.012     Document Type: Article

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