Research Article

Using an Effective Numerical Method for Solving a Class of Lane-Emden Equations

Table 5

Numerical solutions for Example 5.

Exact solution 50-order RKM approximation The approximation solutions in [3]
in [3]

0.0 0 0 0
0.01 −0.0001999900 −0.00019999 −0.0001970587
0.1 −0.0199006617 −0.0199007 −0.0198967225
0.5 −0.4462871026 −0.446287 −0.4462840851
1.0 −1.3862943611 −1.38629 −1.3862934297
2.0 −3.2188758249 −3.21888 −3.2188763248
3.0 −4.6051701860 −4.60517 −4.6051709964
4.0 −5.6664266881 −5.66643 −5.6664274573