Abstract

Homotopy perturbation method is used for solving the multi-point boundary value problems. The approximate solution is found in the form of a rapidly convergent series. Several numerical examples have been considered to illustrate the efficiency and implementation of the method and the results are compared with the other methods in the literature.

Keywords:

Approximate solution, homotopy perturbation method, linear and nonlinear problems, multi-point boundary value problems,

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