Research Article

Rational Homotopy Perturbation Method

Table 2

Comparison of the relative error between exact solution (5.2) for (5.1) and its first order approximate solutions given by RHPM (5.7), HPM [3], and VIM [3].

Order ā€‰[ ] 1 1
Exact (4.2) RHPM (5.7) HPM [3] VIM [3]

0.5 0.47942554 0.00219553 0.00007743 0.00080698
1.0 0.84147098 0.00629261 0.00389778 0.02403725
1.5 0.99749499 0.00924481 0.03354518 0.17347474
2.0 0.90929743 0.01132241 0.14119662 0.74571902
2.5 0.59847214 0.00061706 0.44219762 2.85423607
3.0 0.14112001 āˆ’0.06022780 2.40024981 23.28655437