The Adomian decomposition method with Green's function for solving nonlinear singular boundary value problems

In this paper, we present an efficient numerical algorithm for solving a general class of nonlinear singular boundary value problems. This present algorithm is based on the Adomian decomposition method (ADM) and Green's function. The method depends on constructing Green's function before establishing the recursive scheme. In contrast to the existing recursive schemes based on ADM, the proposed numerical algorithm avoids solving a sequence of transcendental equations for the undetermined coefficients. The approximate series solution is calculated in the form of series with easily computable components. Moreover, the convergence analysis and error estimation of the proposed method is given. Furthermore, the numerical examples are included to demonstrate the accuracy, applicability, and generality of the proposed scheme. The numerical results reveal that the proposed method is very effective. © 2013 Korean Society for Computational and Applied Mathematics.