The novel family of transcendental Leal-functions with applications to science and engineering.

During the phenomena modelling process in the different areas of science and engineering is common to face nonlinear equations without exact solutions; thus, the need of employing numerical methods to obtain such solutions. Therefore, in order to provide new possibilities for the isolation of variables, we propose a novel family of transcendental functions with new algebraic properties including their integration and differentiation rules. Likewise, in order facilitate the numerical evaluation for every new family set of functions, a highly accurate series of approximations is proposed by employing analytical expressions in terms of known transcendental functions and polynomials combinations. By the use of known functions for the proposed approximations, makes possible the use of any programming language for their respective implementation. In this article, three interesting case studies are presented with applications on: coastal engineering, transmission lines span on electrical engineering, and the planar one-dimensional Bratu equation. Finally, based on the results from study cases, it can be concluded that Leal-functions will have relevant impact in all areas of physics and mathematics, by providing new tools to scientists and engineers for the proposal of new mathematical models and numerical/analytical analysis, design and implementation of new theories and technological innovations.

The novel Leal-polynomials for the multi-expansive approximation of nonlinear differential equations.

This work presents the novel Leal-polynomials (LP) for the approximation of nonlinear differential equations of different kind. The main characteristic of LPs is that they satisfy multiple expansion points and its derivatives as a mechanism to replicate behaviour of the nonlinear problem, giving more accuracy within the region of interest. Therefore, the main contribution of this work is that LP satisfies the successive derivatives in some specific points, resulting more accurate polynomials than Taylor expansion does for the same degree of their respective polynomials. Such characteristic makes of LPs a handy and powerful tool to approximate different kind of differential equations including: singular problems, initial condition and boundary-valued problems, equations with discontinuities, coupled differential equations, high-order equations, among others. Additionally, we show how the process to obtain the polynomials is straightforward and simple to implement; generating a compact, and easy to compute, expression. Even more, we present the process to approximate Gelfand's equation, an equation of an isothermal reaction, a model for chronic myelogenous leukemia, Thomas-Fermi equation, and a high order nonlinear differential equations with discontinuities getting, as result, accurate, fast and compact approximate solutions. In addition, we present the computational convergence and error studies for LPs resulting convergent polynomials and error tendency to zero as the order of LPs increases for all study cases. Finally, a study of CPU time shows that LPs require a few nano-seconds to be evaluated, which makes them suitable for intensive computing applications.

Método de perturbación con transformada de Laplace para resolver problemas no lineales de múltiples soluciones, con condiciones a la frontera mixtas y Neumann / Laplace transform-perturbation method to solve nonlinear perturbative multiple solutions problems with mixed and Neumann boundary conditions

RESUMEN El campo de las ecuaciones diferenciales ha cobrado auge en la actualidad por el desarrollo científico y tecnológico. Por esta situación, el estudio de nuevas metodologías para solucionarlas se ha vuelto importante. A partir de la combinación del método de Laplace Transform (LT) y el método de perturbación (PM) este trabajo presenta el método LT-PM, y su motivación se encuentra en la aplicación conocida de la LT a ecuaciones diferenciales ordinarias lineales. El objetivo de este trabajo fue presentar una modificación del método de perturbación (PM), el método de perturbación con transformada de Laplace (LT-PM), con el fin de resolver problemas perturbativos no lineales, con condiciones a la frontera definidas en intervalos finitos. La metodología consistió en aplicar LT a la ecuación diferencial por resolver y después de asumir que la solución de la misma se puede expresar como una serie de potencias de un parámetro perturbativo, se obtiene la solución del problema aplicando sistemáticamente la transformada inversa de Laplace. Los principales resultados de este trabajo se muestran a partir de dos casos de estudio presentados, donde se observa que LT-PM es potencialmente útil para encontrar soluciones múltiples de problemas no lineales. Además, LT-PM mejora la aplicabilidad del método de perturbación en algunos casos de condiciones a la frontera mixtas y de Neumann, donde PM simplemente no funciona. Con el fin de verificar la exactitud de los resultados obtenidos, se calculó su error residual cuadrático (SRE), el cual resultó muy bajo, de donde se dedujo su precisión y la potencialidad de LT-PM. Se concluye que si bien el método propuesto resulta eficiente en los casos particulares presentados, se espera que sea una herramienta potencialmente eficiente y útil para otros casos de estudio, particularmente, en aquellos relacionados con aplicaciones prácticas en ciencias e ingeniería.

ABSTRACT The field of differential equations has recently gained attention due to recent developments in science and technology. For this reason, the analysis for the use of new methodologies to solve them has become important. Based on the combination of Laplace Transform method (LT) and Perturbation Method (PM) this article pro- poses the Laplace transform-Perturbation Method (LT-PM) which finds its motivation on the application of LT to linear ordinary differential equations. The goal of this work is to propose a modification of PM - the LT-PM), in order to solve nonlinear perturbative problems with boundary conditions defined on finite intervals. The proposed methodology consisted on the application of LT to the differential equation to solve and then, assuming that its solutions can be expressed as a series of perturbative parameter powers. Thus, the solution of the problem is obtained by systematically applying the transformed inverse LT. The main results of this paper were shown through two case studies, where LT-PM is identified as potentially useful for finding multiple solutions to nonlinear problems. Additionally, the LT-PM enhances the applicability of PM, in some cases of mixed and Neumann boundary conditions, where PM is unsuitable to provide the results. With the purpose of verifying the accuracy of the obtained results, the Square Residual Error (SRE) was calculated. The resulting value was extremely low, which showed the precision and potential of LT-PM. We conclude that, although the proposed method resulted efficient for the case studies presented in this article, it is expected that LT-PM can be a potentially useful tool for other case studies. Particularly those related to the practical applications of science and engineering.

Transforming the canonical piecewise-linear model into a smooth-piecewise representation.

A smoothed representation (based on natural exponential and logarithmic functions) for the canonical piecewise-linear model, is presented. The result is a completely differentiable formulation that exhibits interesting properties, like preserving the parameters of the original piecewise-linear model in such a way that they can be directly inherited to the smooth model in order to determine their parameters, the capability of controlling not only the smoothness grade, but also the approximation accuracy at specific breakpoint locations, a lower or equal overshooting for high order derivatives in comparison with other approaches, and the additional advantage of being expressed in a reduced mathematical form with only two types of inverse functions (logarithmic and exponential). By numerical simulation examples, this proposal is verified and well-illustrated.

Nonlinearities distribution Laplace transform-homotopy perturbation method.

This article proposes non-linearities distribution Laplace transform-homotopy perturbation method (NDLT-HPM) to find approximate solutions for linear and nonlinear differential equations with finite boundary conditions. We will see that the method is particularly relevant in case of equations with nonhomogeneous non-polynomial terms. Comparing figures between approximate and exact solutions we show the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Direct application of Padé approximant for solving nonlinear differential equations.

UNLABELLED: This work presents a direct procedure to apply Padé method to find approximate solutions for nonlinear differential equations. Moreover, we present some cases study showing the strength of the method to generate highly accurate rational approximate solutions compared to other semi-analytical methods. The type of tested nonlinear equations are: a highly nonlinear boundary value problem, a differential-algebraic oscillator problem, and an asymptotic problem. The high accurate handy approximations obtained by the direct application of Padé method shows the high potential if the proposed scheme to approximate a wide variety of problems. What is more, the direct application of the Padé approximant aids to avoid the previous application of an approximative method like Taylor series method, homotopy perturbation method, Adomian Decomposition method, homotopy analysis method, variational iteration method, among others, as tools to obtain a power series solutions to post-treat with the Padé approximant. AMS SUBJECT CLASSIFICATION: 34L30.

A handy approximate solution for a squeezing flow between two infinite plates by using of Laplace transform-homotopy perturbation method.

This article proposes Laplace Transform Homotopy Perturbation Method (LT-HPM) to find an approximate solution for the problem of an axisymmetric Newtonian fluid squeezed between two large parallel plates. After comparing figures between approximate and exact solutions, we will see that the proposed solutions besides of handy, are highly accurate and therefore LT-HPM is extremely efficient.

Modified Taylor series method for solving nonlinear differential equations with mixed boundary conditions defined on finite intervals.

ABSTRACT: In this article, we propose the application of a modified Taylor series method (MTSM) for the approximation of nonlinear problems described on finite intervals. The issue of Taylor series method with mixed boundary conditions is circumvented using shooting constants and extra derivatives of the problem. In order to show the benefits of this proposal, three different kinds of problems are solved: three-point boundary valued problem (BVP) of third-order with a hyperbolic sine nonlinearity, two-point BVP for a second-order nonlinear differential equation with an exponential nonlinearity, and a two-point BVP for a third-order nonlinear differential equation with a radical nonlinearity. The result shows that the MTSM method is capable to generate easily computable and highly accurate approximations for nonlinear equations. AMS SUBJECT CLASSIFICATION: 34L30.

A handy approximation for a mediated bioelectrocatalysis process, related to Michaelis-Menten equation.

In this article, Perturbation Method (PM) is employed to obtain a handy approximate solution to the steady state nonlinear reaction diffusion equation containing a nonlinear term related to Michaelis-Menten of the enzymatic reaction. Comparing graphics between the approximate and exact solutions, it will be shown that the PM method is quite efficient.