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

A new perturbation method called the homotopy perturbation method (HPM) [1 – 4] was proposed by Ji-Huan He in 1999, which is a coupling of the traditional perturbation method and homotopy in topology. The traditional perturbation methods are based on assuming a small parameter, and the approximate solutions obtained by those methods, in most cases, are valid only for small values of the small p...

Initiated by Gromov in [1], the study of holomorphic curves in symplectic manifolds has been a powerfull tool in symplectic topology, however the moduli space of holomorphic curves is often very difficult to find. A common technique is to study the limiting behavior of holomorphic curves in a degenerating family of complex structures which corresponds to a kind of adiabatic limit. The category ...

In this paper, Homotopy perturbation method (HPM) has been applied to investigate the effect of magnetic field on Cu-water nanofluid flow in non-parallel walls. The validity of HPM solutions were verified by comparing with numerical results obtained using a fourth order Runge–Kutta method. Effects of active parameters on flow have been presented graphically. The results show that velocity i...

An attempt is made for the first time to solve the quadratic and cubic model of magneto hydrodynamic Poiseuille flow of Phan-Thein-Tanner (PTT). A series solution of magneto hydrodynamic (MHD) flow is developed by using homotopy perturbation method (HPM). The results are presented graphically and the effects of non-dimensional parameters on the flow field are analyzed. The results reveal many i...

in oil industry, spontaneous imbibition is an important phenomenon in recovery from fractured reservoirs which can be defined as spontaneous uptake of a wetting fluid into a porous solid. spontaneous imbibition involves both cocurrent and countercurrent flows. when a matrix block is partially covered by water, oil recovery is dominated by cocurrent imbibition i.e. the production of non wetting ...

In this paper, we apply Homotopy Analysis Transform Method (HATM) for solving various nonlinear equations. This method is the combined for of the homotopy analysis method and Laplace transform method. HATM is applied without any discretization or restrictive assumption and avoids roundoff errors which may lead the solution in closed form. The results reveal that the HATM is very effective, conv...