In this paper, the application of the homotopy analysis method (HAM) is presented to obtain analytic solutions of nonlinear systems that often appear in chemical problems. Previously, D. D. Ganji et al. in [“Application of He’s methods to nonlinear chemistry problems,” Comput. Math. Appl., 54 (2007) 1122–1132] used the variational iteration method (VIM) and the homotopy perturbation method (HPM) to obtain a solution of the above problem, but the paper contained some evident mistakes that we could easily identify. The results show that the HAM is very effective and convenient and the solutions obtained using this method have high accuracy with respect to VIM and HPM.
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Matinfar, M., Saeidy, M., Gharahsuflu, B. et al. Solutions of Nonlinear Chemistry Problems by Homotopy Analysis. Comput Math Model 25, 103–114 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10598-013-9211-0
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