Homotopy perturbation technique for solving two-point boundary value problems – comparison with other methods

The two-point boundary value problems occur in a wide variety of problems in engineering and science. In this paper, we implement the homotopy perturbation method for solving the linear and nonlinear two-point boundary value problems. The main aim of this paper is to compare the performance of the homotopy perturbation method with extended Adomian decomposition method and shooting method. As a result, for the same number of terms, the homotopy perturbation method yields relatively more accurate results with rapid convergence than other methods. The computer symbolic systems such as Maple and Mathematica allow us to perform complicated and tedious calculations.