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An elementary introduction to the homotopy perturbation method. (English) Zbl 1165.65374
Summary: This paper is an elementary introduction to the concepts of the homotopy perturbation method. Particular attention is paid to giving an intuitive grasp for the solution procedure throughout the paper.
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 65L99 Numerical methods for ODE 65-01 Textbooks (numerical analysis)
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