Classical Way of Looking at the Lane-Emden Equation

Year 2019, Volume: 68 Issue: 1, 271 - 276, 01.02.2019

Tanfer Tanriverdi

https://doi.org/10.31801/cfsuasmas.451619

Cited By: 4

Abstract

In this article, the well-known approximate and analytical solutions of the Lane-Emden equation applying Taylor series expansion are derived. To the best of author's knowledge nobody has overcome the singularity of the Lane-Emden equation at the origin as it is carried out here

Keywords

Lane-Emden equation, Taylor series expansion, exact solution

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