Variational Iteration Method for the Magnetohydrodynamic Flow over a Nonlinear Stretching Sheet

Table 2

Comparison of the values of 𝑓^′′(0) obtained by the variational iteration method and the modified Adomian decomposition method [1] for various values of 𝛽 and M.

𝑀	𝛽=−1.5		𝛽=1.5		𝛽=5
	VIM	ADM [1]	VIM	ADM [1]	VIM	ADM [1]
1.0	−0.6530	−0.6532	−1.5253	−1.5252	−2.1529	−2.1528
5.0	−2.0852	−2.0852	−2.5162	−2.5161	−2.9414	−2.9414
10	−3.0562	−3.0562	−3.3663	−3.3663	−3.6957	−3.6956
50	−7.0239	−7.0239	−7.1647	−7.1647	−7.3256	−7.3256
100	−9.9667	−9.9666	−10.0776	−10.0776	−10.1816	−10.1816
500	−22.3458	−22.3457	−22.3905	−22.3904	−22.4426	−22.4425