HOMOTOPY PERTURBATION METHOD TO SOLVING NONLINEAR WBK EQUATIONS

Abdolhosein Fereidoon (Iran), S. A. Zahedi (Iran), D. D. Ganji (Iran) and Yasser Rostamiyan (Iran)

Received November 21, 2007

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Keywords and phrases: Whitham-Broer-Kaup(WBK) equations, homotopy perturbation method (HPM), partial differential equations.