Gravitational search algorithm (GSA) is one of the newest swarm based optimization algorithms, which has been inspired by the Newtonian laws of gravity and motion. GSA has empirically shown to be an efficient and robust stochastic search algorithm. Since introducing GSA a convergence analysis of this algorithm has not yet been developed. This paper introduces the first attempt to a formal conve...

in this paper, we apply the  homotopy analysis method (ham) for solving fuzzy  linear systems and present  the necessary and sufficient conditions for the convergence of series solution obtained via the ham. also, we present a new criterion for choosing a proper value of convergence-control parameter $hbar$ when the ham is applied to linear system of equations. comparisons are made between the ...

the aim of this paper is to study the high order difference scheme for the solution of a fractional partial differential equation (pde) in the electroanalytical chemistry. the space fractional derivative is described in the riemann-liouville sense. in the proposed scheme we discretize the space derivative with a fourth-order compact scheme and use the grunwald- letnikov discretization of the ri...

the work  addressed in this paper is a comparative study between convergence of the  acceleration techniques, diagonal pad'{e} approximants and shanks transforms, on homotopy analysis method  and adomian decomposition method for solving  differential equations of integer and fractional orders.

A Class of new methods based on a septic non-polynomial spline function for the numerical solution of problems in calculus of variations is presented. The local truncation errors and the methods of order 2th, 4th, 6th, 8th, 10th, and 12th, are obtained. The inverse of some band matrixes are obtained which are required in proving the convergence analysis of the presented method. Convergence anal...

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, the convergence of zakharov-kuznetsov (zk) equation by homo- topy analysis method (ham) is investigated. a theorem is proved to guarantee the conver- gence of ham and to nd the series solution of this equation via a reliable algorithm.