Generalisation of the Lagrange multipliers for variational iterations applied to systems of differential equations

ALTINTAN D., UĞUR Ö.

MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTER MODELLING, cilt.54, ss.2040-2050, 2011 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 54
  • Basım Tarihi: 2011
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.mcm.2011.05.013
  • Dergi Adı: MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTER MODELLING
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.2040-2050
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

In this paper, a new approach to the variational iteration method is introduced to solve systems of first-order differential equations. Since higher-order differential equations can almost always be converted into a first-order system of equations, the proposed method is still applicable to a wide range of differential equations. This generalised approach, unlike the classical method, uses restricted variations only for nonlinear terms by generalising the Lagrange multipliers. Consequently, this allows us to use the well known, but ignored, theory of linear ODEs for computing the matrix-valued Lagrange multipliers.