The essence of the homotopy analysis method

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 216, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1299-1303

  Liu, Cheng shi ^a  

^a NORTHEAST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Blasius equation; Generalized Taylor expansion; Homotopy analysis method; Nonlinear differential equation; Series expansion method

Indexed keywords

BLASIUS EQUATION; HOMOTOPY ANALYSIS METHODS; NONLINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION; SERIES EXPANSION METHODS; TAYLOR EXPANSIONS;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EXPANSION;

EID: 77949917814     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2010.02.022     Document Type: Article

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