An improved piecewise variational iteration method for solving strongly nonlinear oscillators (Q2342901)

The authors investigate the application of the known variational method to find the approximate solution of the strongly nonlinear differential equation of the form \[ \ddot{u}(t)+ \alpha u(t) + N(t,u(t), \dot{u}(t),\ddot{u}(t))=0, \qquad t\in (0,T], \] with the initial conditions \(u(0)=A\), \(\dot{u}(0)=B \), where \(\alpha >0\), \(N(t,u(t), \dot{u}(t),\ddot{u}(t))\) is a nonlinear function. The variational iteration method \[ u_{n+1}(t)= u_{n}(t)+ \int^{t}_{0}\lambda (t,x) [\ddot{u}(x)+ \alpha u(x) + N(x,u(x), \dot{u}(x),\ddot{u}(x))]dx \] is applied, using the system of Chebyshev polynomials, to approximate the \( u_{n}(t)\). The approximate solution on the interval \((0,T]\) is obtained decomposing \([0,T]\) into non-overlapping intervals \(\Omega_{r}=[T_{r-1},T_{r}]\), \(r=1,2,\dots,m\); \(\Delta_{r}= T_{r}-T_{r-1}\). Numerical results for some examples are compared with the results given by Runge-Kutta method of fourth order.