Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 795838, 5 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/795838
Research Article

Homotopy Perturbation Method for Solving Reaction-Diffusion Equations

Yu-Xi Wang, Hua-You Si, and Lu-Feng Mo

School of Information Engineering, Zhejiang Forestry College, Lin'an 311300, Zhejiang, China

Received 16 November 2007; Revised 11 February 2008; Accepted 27 February 2008

Academic Editor: Paulo Gonçalves

Copyright © 2008 Yu-Xi Wang et al. 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.

Abstract

The homotopy perturbation method is applied to solve reaction-diffusion equations. In this method, the trial function (initial solution) is chosen with some unknown parameters, which are identified using the method of weighted residuals. Some examples are given. The obtained results are compared with the exact solutions, revealing that this method is very efficient and the obtained solutions are of high accuracy.