* Correspondence: stanford. [email protected] Department of Mathematics, University of Venda, Private Bag X5050, Thohoyandou 0950, South Africa Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Abstract This article presents an improved spectral-homotopy analysis method (ISHAM) for solving nonlinear differential equations. The implementation of this new technique is show...

The unusual implementation of explicit Falkner methods for solving special second-order initial-value problems increases the order of the method as will be shown by means of numerical examples. In this paper we made an analysis of the propagation of the truncation errors in both the usual and the unusual implementations, thus justifying the numerical results obtained. By that, some error bounds...

We propose an iterative method for solving the Falkner-Skan equation. The method provides approximate analytical solutions which consist of coefficients of the previous iterate solution. By some examples, we show that the presented method with a small number of iterations is competitive with the existing method such as Adomian decomposition method. Furthermore, to improve the accuracy of the pr...

Based on a new approximation method, namely pseudospectral method, a solution for the three order nonlinear ordinary differential laminar boundary layer Falkner-Skan equation has been obtained on the semi-infinite domain. The proposed approach is equipped by the orthogonal Hermite functions that have perfect properties to achieve this goal. This method solves the problem on the semi-infinite do...

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A numerical technique is presented for the solution of Falkner-Skan equation. The nonlinear ordinary differential equation is solved using Chebyshev cardinal functions. The method have been derived by first truncating the semi-infinite physical domain of the problem to a finite domain and expanding the required approximate solution as the elements of Chebyshev cardinal functions. Using the oper...