Applying Hes Variational Iteration Method for Solving Differential-Difference Equation.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2008, Article ID 869614, 7 pages doi:10.1155/2008/869614 Research Article Applying He’s Variational Iteration Method for Solving Differential-Difference Equation Ahmet Yıldırım ˙ Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Ege University, 35100 Bornova-Izmir, Turkey Correspondence should be addressed to Ahmet Yıldırım, ahmety@.tr Received 31 January 2008; Revised 1 April 2008; Accepted 14 May 2008 Recommended by Oleg Gendelman We extend He’s variational iteration method VIM to find the approximate solutions for nonlinear differential-difference equation. Simple but typical examples are applied to illustrate the validity and great potential of the generalized variational iteration method in solving nonlinear differential- difference equation. The results reveal that the method is very effective and simple. We find the extended method for nonlinear differential-difference equation is of good accuracy. Copyright q 2008 Ahmet Yıldırım. 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. 1. Introduction In recent years, some promising approximate analytical solutions are proposed, such as exp- function method 1, homotopy perturbation method 2–11, and variational iteration method VIM 12–25. The variational iteration method is the most effective and convenient one for both weakly and strongly nonlinear equations. This method has been shown to effectively, easily, and accurately solve a large class of nonlinear problems with component converging rapidly to accurate solutions. Differential-difference equa