Application of He’s Variational Iterative Method for Solving Thin Film Flow Problem Arising in Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics英文文献资料.docVIP

World Journal of Mechanics, 2012, 2, 138-142 doi:10.4236/wjm.2012.23016 Published Online June 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/wjm) Application of He’s Variational Iterative Method for Solving Thin Film Flow Problem Arising in Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics Abdul M. Siddiqui , Ali A. Farooq , Tahira Haroon , 1 2,3 4 3 1 Muhammad A. Rana , Bruce S. Babcock 1 Department of Mathematics, York Campus, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan Department of Basic Sciences, Sector I-14, Riphah International University, Islamabad, Pakistan Department of Mathematics, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan 2 3 4 Email: {ams5, bsb2}@, {aliahmedfarooq, tahirapak}@, mafzalrana@ Received March 26, 2012; revised April 26, 2012; accepted May 6, 2012 ABSTRACT In this paper, He’s variational iteration method is successfully employed to solve a nonlinear boundary value problem arising in the study of thin film flow of a third grade fluid down an inclined plane. For comparison, the same problem is solved by the Adomian decomposition method. The results show that the difference between the two solutions is negli- gible. The conclusion is that this technique may be considered an alternative and efficient method for finding approxi- mate solutions of both linear and nonlinear boundary value problems. Furthermore, the variational iteration method has an advantage over the decomposition method in that it solves the nonlinear problems without using the Adomian poly- nomials. Keywords: Thin Film Flow; Third Grade Fluid; Nonlinear Boundary Value Problem; Variational Iteration Method; Adomian Decomposition Method 1. Introduction ally it is pleasing to solve a nonlinear problem analyti- cally. In the recent decades, many different analyt