Research Article Homotopy Perturbation Method for Solving Fourth-Order Boundary Value Problems

We apply the homotopy perturbation method for solving the fourth-order boundary value problems. The analytical results of the boundary value problems have been ob-tained in terms of convergent series with easily computable components. Several exam-ples are given to illustrate the efficiency and implementation of the homotopy perturba-tion method. Comparisons are made to confirm the reliability of the method. Homotopy method can be considered an alternative method to Adomian decomposition method and its variant forms. Copyright © 2007 S. T. Mohyud-Din and M. A. Noor. This is an open access article dis-tributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is prop-erly cited. 1