Agreement between the Homotopy Perturbation Method and Variation Iterational Method on the Analysis of One-Dimensional Flow Incorporating First Order Decay

Abstract

In this paper, a comparative study of reactive contaminant flow for constant initial concentration in one dimension is presented. The adsorption term is modeled by Freudlich Isotherm. An approximation of the one-dimensional contaminant flow model was obtained using homotopy-perturbation transformation and the resulting linear equations were solved semi-analytically by homotopy perturbation method (HPM) and Variational Iteration Method (VIM). Graphs were plotted using the solution obtained from the methods and the results presented and discussed. The analysis of the results obtained show that the concentration of the contaminant decreases with time and distance as it moves away from the origin.