Homotopy perturbation method: when infinity equals five

2008/10/18 by Francisco M. Fernandez, Fernandez, Francisco M.
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Mathematical Physics (math-ph) #math-ph #math.MP

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0810.3318

arxiv created 2008/10/18 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

I discuss a recent application of homotopy perturbation method to a heat transfer problem. I show that the authors make infinity equal five and analyze the consequences of that magic.

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