Convergence and Error Estimation of a New Formulation of Homotopy Perturbation Method for Classes of Nonlinear Integral/Integro-Differential Equations

Abstract

In this work, the main concept of the homotopy perturbation method (HPM) was outlined and convergence theorems of the HPM for solving some classes of nonlinear integral, integro-differential and differential equations were proved. A theorem for estimating the error in the approximate solution was proved as well. The proposed HPM convergence theorems were confirmed and the efficiency of the technique was explored by applying the HPM for solving several classes of nonlinear integral/integro-differential equations.

Keywords

• homotopy perturbation method
• nonlinear integral equation
• nonlinear integro-differential equation
• error estimation