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Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 318298, 11 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/318298
Research Article
Modified Variational Iteration Method for Free-Convective Boundary-Layer Equation Using Padé Approximation
1HITEC University, Taxila Cantt, Pakistan
2Department of Mathematics, Ege University, Bornova 35100, Izmir, Turkey
3Department of Mathematics, University of Dayton, 300 College Park, Dayton, OH 45469-2316, USA
Received 16 October 2009; Accepted 17 January 2010
Academic Editor: Jihuan He
Copyright © 2010 Syed Tauseef Mohyud-Din 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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