Applications of the differential transformation to three-point singular boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations

Abstract

The differential transform method is used to find numerical approximations of the solution to a class of certain nonlinear three-point singular boundary value problems. The method is based on Taylor's theorem. Coefficients of the Taylor series are determined by constructing a recurrence relation. To deal with the nonlinearity of the problems, the Faa di Bruno's formula containing the partial ordinary Bell polynomials is applied within the differential transform. The error estimation results are also presented. Four concrete problems are studied to show efficiency and reliability of the method. The obtained results are compared to other methods, e.g., reproducing kernel Hilbert space method.