Scientific Research and Essays

  • Abbreviation: Sci. Res. Essays
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1992-2248
  • DOI: 10.5897/SRE
  • Start Year: 2006
  • Published Articles: 2768

Full Length Research Paper

Variational iteration technique for finding multiple roots of nonlinear equations

Muhammad Aslam Noor1,2*, Farooq Ahmed Shah1, Khalida Inayat Noor1 and Eisa Al-Said2
1Department of Mathematics, Comsats Institute of Information Technology, Park Road, Islamabad, Pakistan. 2Mathematics Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.
Email: [email protected], [email protected]

  •  Accepted: 23 February 2011
  •  Published: 31 March 2011

Abstract

In this paper, we suggest and analyze some new iterative methods for finding multiple roots of nonlinear equations by using the variational iteration technique. The technique generates the methods of higher order. Here, the new methods are of second and third order convergence. We also give several examples to illustrate the efficiency of these methods. Comparison with other similar methods is also given.

 

Key words: Variational iteration, multiple roots, Newton method, Iterative methods.