Title

Optimal analytic method for the nonlinear Hasegawa-Mima equation

Authors

Authors

M. Baxter; R. A. Van Gorder;K. Vajravelu

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Eur. Phys. J. Plus

Keywords

HOMOTOPY ANALYSIS METHOD; MAGNETIZED NONUNIFORM PLASMA; VISCOUS-FLOW; PROBLEMS; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; EMDEN-FOWLER TYPE; SERIES SOLUTIONS; DIFFERENTIAL-EQUATIONS; GENERAL-APPROACH; TURBULENCE; WAVES; Physics, Multidisciplinary

Abstract

The Hasegawa-Mima equation is a nonlinear partial differential equation that describes the electric potential due to a drift wave in a plasma. In the present paper, we apply the method of homotopy analysis to a slightly more general Hasegawa-Mima equation, which accounts for hyper-viscous damping or viscous dissipation. First, we outline the method for the general initial/boundary value problem over a compact rectangular spatial domain. We use a two-stage method, where both the convergence control parameter and the auxiliary linear operator are optimally selected to minimize the residual error due to the approximation. To do the latter, we consider a family of operators parameterized by a constant which gives the decay rate of the solutions. After outlining the general method, we consider a number of concrete examples in order to demonstrate the utility of this approach. The results enable us to study properties of the initial/boundary value problem for the generalized Hasegawa-Mima equation. In several cases considered, we are able to obtain solutions with extremely small residual errors after relatively few iterations are computed (residual errors on the order of 10(-15) are found in multiple cases after only three iterations). The results demonstrate that selecting a parameterized auxiliary linear operator can be extremely useful for minimizing residual errors when used concurrently with the optimal homotopy analysis method, suggesting that this approach can prove useful for a number of nonlinear partial differential equations arising in physics and nonlinear mechanics.

Journal Title

European Physical Journal Plus

Volume

129

Issue/Number

5

Publication Date

1-1-2014

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

14

WOS Identifier

WOS:000336613900001

ISSN

2190-5444

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