Article history: Received 26 March 2010 Accepted 9 April 2010 Available online 18 April 2010 Communicated by R. Wu

Variational iteration method has been favourably applied to various kinds of nonlinear problems. The main property of the method is in its flexibility and ability to solve nonlinear equations accurately and conveniently. In this paper recent trends and developments in the use of the method are reviewed. Major applications to nonlinear wave equation, nonlinear fractional differential equations, ...

-Using the He’s variational iteration method, it is possible to find the exact solutions or better approximate solutions of the partial differential equations. In this method, a correction functional is constructed by a general Lagrange multiplier, which can be identified via variational theory. In this paper, this method is used for solving a nonlinear partial differential equation, a three-di...

In this paper, the variational iteration method is used to solve the Cauchy problem. Some examples are given to elucidate the solution procedure and reliability of the obtained results. The variational iteration algorithm leads to exact solutions in the present study. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

In this paper, we apply the Modified Variational Iteration Method (MVIM) for solving systems of partial differential equations. The proposed modification is made by introducing He’s polynomials in the correction functional of Variational Iteration Method (VIM). Several examples are given to verify the reliability and efficiency of the method. The fact that the MVIM solves nonlinear problems wit...

In this paper, the variational iteration method (VIM) and Buckley-Feuring method (BFM) are applied to find the exact fuzzy solution of the fuzzy heat-like equations in one and two dimensions with variable coefficients. Further a comparison between VIM-BFM and Seikkala solutions is provided. [Hamid Rouhparvar, Saeid Abbasbandy, Tofigh Allahviranloo. Journal of American Science 2011; 7(2):338-345...

The famous Perona-Malik (P-M) equation which was at first introduced for image restoration has been solved via various numerical methods. In this paper we will solve it for the first time via applying a new numerical method called the Variational Iteration Method (VIM) and the correspondent approximated solutions will be obtained for the P-M equation with regards to relevant error analysis. Thr...

In this paper, we introduce a modified variational iteration method for second order initial value problems by transforming the integral of iteration process. The main advantages of this modification are that it can overcome the restriction of the form of nonlinearity term in differential equations and improve the iterative speed of conventional variational iteration method. The method is appli...

In this paper, we present a comparative analysis of non-reactive contaminant flow problem for constant initial concentration in two dimensions by homotopy-perturbation and Variational Iteration method. We provide an approximation of this equation using homotopy-perturbation transformation and solve the resulting linear equations analytically by homotopy-perturbation method (HPM) and Variational...

We extend He’s variational iteration method VIM to find the approximate solutions for nonlinear differential-difference equation. Simple but typical examples are applied to illustrate the validity and great potential of the generalized variational iteration method in solving nonlinear differentialdifference equation. The results reveal that the method is very effective and simple. We find the e...