The present research attempts to explain dynamic pull-in instability of functionally graded micro-cantilevers actuated by step DC voltage while the fringing-field effect is taken into account in the vibrational equation of motion. By employing modern asymptotic approach namely Homotopy Perturbation Method with an auxiliary term, high-order frequency-amplitude relation is obtained, then the infl...

In this paper, a coupling method of a homotopy technique and a perturbation technique is proposed to solve non-linear problems. In contrast to the traditional perturbation methods, the proposed method does not require a small parameter in the equation. In this method, according to the homotopy technique, a homotopy with an imbedding parameter p3[0, 1] is constructed, and the imbedding parameter...

Although homotopy-based methods, namely homotopy analysis method andhomotopy perturbation method, have largely been used to solve functionalequations, there are still serious questions on the convergence issue of thesemethods. Some authors have tried to prove convergence of these methods, butthe researchers in this article indicate that some of those discussions are faulty.Here, after criticizi...

In this paper, we apply the modified homotopy perturbation method based on the Taylor series for solving the initial value problems of the two dimensional sine-Gordon equation. Due to the proposed modification , the approximate solution obtained is in accordance with the exact solution greatly. Numerical examples are presented to show its efficiency.

In this paper, we propose an efficient modification of a New Homotopy Perturbation Method (NHPM) to obtain approximate and exact analytical solutions of Partial Differential-Algebraic Equations (PDAEs). The NHPM is first applied to the PDAE to obtain the exact solution in convergent series form. To improve the solution obtained from NHPM’s truncated series, a post-treatment combining Laplace tr...

In this paper, we have applied the homotopy perturbation method (HPM) for obtaining the analytical solution of unsteady flow of gas through a porous medium and we have also compared the findings of this research with some other analytical results. Results showed a very good agreement between results of HPM and the numerical solutions of the problem rather than other analytical solutions which h...

Nonlinear partial differential equations are useful in describing the various phenomena in disciplines. The Homotopy perturbation method, first proposed by He in 1998, was developed and improved by He [5, 6, 7, 8]. Homotopy perturbation method [4] is a novel and effective method, and can solve various nonlinear equations. This method has been successfully applied to solve many types of nonlinea...

In this paper, a Laplace transform decomposition algorithm (LTDA) is proposed to solve the Riccati equation. Comparisons are made among the homotopy perturbation method (HPM), the Adomian decomposition method (ADM) and the proposed method. It is shown that the homotopy perturbation method with a specific convex homotopy is equivalent to the Adomian decomposition method and the Laplace transform...