In this paper, we consider a non-self-adjoint, singular, nonlinear fourth order boundary value problem which arises in the theory of epitaxial growth. It is possible to reduce the fourth order equation to a singular boundary value problem of second order given by w''-1/r w'=w^2/(2r^2 )+1/2 λ r^2. The problem depends on the parameter λ and admits multiple solutions. Therefore, it is difficult to...

in this article we decide to define a modified homotopy perturbation for solving non-linear integral equations. almost, all of the papers that was presented to solve non-linear problems by the homotopy method, they used from two non-linear and linear operators. but we convert a non-linear problem to two suitable non-linear operators also we use from appropriate bases functions such as legendre ...

The purpose of this paper is to employ an alternative approach to reconstruct the standard variational iteration algorithm II proposed by He, including Lagrange multiplier, and to give a simpler formulation of Adomian decomposition and modified Adomian decomposition method in terms of newly proposed variational iteration method-II (VIM). Through careful investigation of the earlier variational ...

Variational iteration method and homotopy perturbation method are introduced to solve the Kawahara equation. Comparison of the obtained results with the numerical solution shows that both methods lead to remarkably accurate solutions. The main property of the both methods is its flexibility and ability to solve nonlinear equations accurately and conveniently.

Robust dynamic programming (robust DP) mitigates the effects of ambiguity in transition probabilities on the solutions of Markov decision problems. We consider the computation of robust DP solutions for discrete-stage, infinite-horizon, discounted problems with finite state and action spaces. We present robust modified policy iteration (RMPI) and demonstrate its convergence. RMPI encompasses bo...

Modified policy iteration (MPI) is a dynamic programming (DP) algorithm that contains the two celebrated policy and value iteration methods. Despite its generality, MPI has not been thoroughly studied, especially its approximation form which is used when the state and/or action spaces are large or infinite. In this paper, we propose three implementations of approximate MPI (AMPI) that are exten...

In this paper, we apply the Variational iteration method and homotopy perturbation method for solving linear and nonlinear partial integro-differential equation (PIDE). The efficiency and accuracy of the methods is validated by its application to several distinct test problems which have exact solutions. The results of applying these methods show the simplicity and efficiency of these methods.

Abstract In this paper, we propose an efficient approach to solve the fifthorder KdV equations. By using the variational iteration method, the exact solutions of the fifth-order KdV equations are given without the calculation of the complicated Adomian’s polynomials, linearization, discretization, weak nonlinearity assumptions or perturbation theory. Numerical examples are presented that show t...