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Lagrangian method for solving Lane-Emden type equation arising in astrophysics on semi-infinite domains

Mathematical Physics 2014-11-21 v2 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science math.MP Numerical Analysis

Abstract

In this paper we propose a Lagrangian method for solving Lane-Emden equation which is a nonlinear ordinary differential equation on semi-infinite interval. This approach is based on a Modified generalized Laguerre functions Lagrangian method. The method reduces the solution of this problem to the solution of a system of algebraic equations. We also present the comparison of this work with some well-known results and show that the present solution is acceptable.

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@article{arxiv.1008.2313,
  title  = {Lagrangian method for solving Lane-Emden type equation arising in astrophysics on semi-infinite domains},
  author = {K. Parand and A. R. Rezaei and A. Taghavi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.2313},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

16 pages, 1 figures; Published online in the journal of "Acta Astronautica"