Investigating a hybrid perturbation-Galerkin technique using computer algebra (Q1186729)

The purpose of this paper is two-fold, (i) to describe some aspects of the hybrid technique to a readership which appreciates the power and capability of computer algebra, (ii) to explore how computer algebra may be used to investigate the form and the convergence properties of solutions generated by the technique. A brief description of the method is given. The authors analyze a simple two-point boundary value problem whose exact solution is known and demonstrate that the hybrid solutions converge for all values of the perturbation parameter even though the perturbation radius of convergence is finite. A treatment of a well-known quantum-mechanical one-dimensional anharmonic oscillator problem is presented. For this problem the perturbation radius of convergence is known to be zero, but the hybrid solutions seem to converge for all values of the perturbation parameter.