Analyzing “Homotopy Perturbation Method for Solving Fourth-Order Boundary Value Problem”.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2011, Article ID 296796, 7 pages doi:10.1155/2011/296796 Letter to the Editor Analyzing “Homotopy Perturbation Method for Solving Fourth-Order Boundary Value Problem” Afgan Aslanov Department of Mathematics and Computing, Beykent University, Istanbul, Turkey Correspondence should be addressed to Afgan Aslanov, afganaslanov@ Received 29 March 2011; Accepted 8 April 2011 Copyright q 2011 Afgan Aslanov. 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. We analyze a previous paper by S. T. Mohyud-Din and M. A. Noor 2007 and show the mistakes in it. Then, we demonstrate a more efficient method for solving fourth-order boundary value problems. 1. Problem Let us consider the fifth-order boundary problem of the type 4 g x 1.1 u x f u, u , u , u with the boundary conditions u 0 α , u 0 α , u 1 β , u 1 β , 1.2 1 2 1 2 where f and g are continuous functions and α , α , β , and β are real constants. 1 2 1 2 The homotopy perturbation method HPM is employed in 1 for solving such problems. The purpose of this paper is to point out the mistakes in paper 1 and demonstrate more efficient method for solving the problems of type 1.1- 1.2. First of all, we show the mistakes. 1 In Example 3.2 the approximate solut