Although perturbation techniques are widely applied to analyze nonlinear problems in science and engineering, they are however so strongly dependent on small parameters appeared in equations under consideration that they are restricted only to weakly nonlinear problems. For strongly nonlinear problems which don’t contain any small parameters, perturbation techniques are invalid. So, it seems ne...

In this paper, we conduct a comparative study between the homotopy perturbation method (HPM) and Adomian’s decomposition method (ADM) for analytic treatment of nonlinear Volterra integral equations, and we show that the HPM with a specific convex homotopy is equivalent to the ADM for these type of equations.

We define a new method for global optimization, the Homotopy Optimization Method (HOM). This method differs from previous homotopy and continuation methods in that its aim is to find a minimizer for each of a set of values of the homotopy parameter, rather than to follow a path of minimizers. We define a second method, called HOPE, by allowing HOM to follow an ensemble of points obtained by per...

Based on the homotopy perturbation method (HPM) and Padé approximants (PA), approximate and exact solutions are obtained for cubic Boussinesq and modified Boussinesq equations. The obtained solutions contain solitary waves, rational solutions. HPM is used for analytic treatment to those equations and PA for increasing the convergence region of the HPM analytical solution. The results reveal tha...

Some recently developed analytical methods namely; homotopy analysis method, homotopy perturbation method and modified homotopy perturbation method are applied successfully for solving strongly nonlinear oscillators. The analytical results obtained by using HAM are compared with those of HPM, mHPM as well as with numerical results. In this study, different examples with strong nonlinearity are ...