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Journal of Applied Mathematics
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 392567, 10 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/392567
Research Article
Fractional Variational Iteration Method versus Adomian’s Decomposition Method in Some Fractional Partial Differential Equations
1College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan 410073, China
2China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center, Mianyang, Sichuan 621000, China
Received 17 September 2012; Revised 28 December 2012; Accepted 31 December 2012
Academic Editor: Zhongxiao Jia
Copyright © 2013 Junqiang Song et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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