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Motion of a spherical solid particle in Couette flow: exact solution vs. homotopy perturbation approximation with and without Pade approximants

Mathematical Physics 2012-09-18 v1 math.MP

Abstract

The motion of a spherical solid particle in plane Couette flow is governed by a linear problem that has a simple exact solution. As such, there is no need for an approximate analytical representation of the solution; specially when it is tedious, complicated, and requires hairy terms to give accurate results only at small or moderate values of the time.

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@article{arxiv.1209.3462,
  title  = {Motion of a spherical solid particle in Couette flow: exact solution vs. homotopy perturbation approximation with and without Pade approximants},
  author = {Tarek M. A. El-Mistikawy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.3462},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

An earlier version commenting on Reference [2] was submitted to Computers and Mathematics with Applications, but denied publication