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Solution of a class of singular boundary value problems

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In this work a class of singular ordinary differential equations is considered. These problems arise from many engineering and physics applications such as electro-hydrodynamics and some thermal explosions. Adomian decomposition method is applied to solve these singular boundary value problems. The approximate solution is calculated in the form of series with easily computable components. The method is tested for its efficiency by considering four examples and results are compared with previous known results. Techniques that can be applied to obtain higher accuracy of the present method has also been discussed.

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    Ramesh Chand Mittal & Ruchi Nigam

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Mittal, R.C., Nigam, R. Solution of a class of singular boundary value problems. Numer Algor 47, 169–179 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11075-007-9155-6

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