Application of multistage homotopy-perturbation method for the solutions of the Chen system

In this paper, a new reliable algorithm based oil ail adaptation of the standard homotopy-perturbation method (HPM) is applied to the Chen system which is a three-dimensional system of ODEs with quadratic nonlinearities. The HPM is treated as ail algorithm in a Sequence of intervals for finding accurate approximate Solutions to the Chen system. We shall call this technique as the multistage HPM (for short MHPM). In particular we look at the accuracy of the HPM as the Chen system changes from a nonchaotic system to a chaotic one. Numerical comparisons between the MHPM and the classical fourth-order Runge-Kutta (RK4) numerical Solutions reveal that the new technique is a promising tool for the nonlinear chaotic and nonchaotic systems of ODEs. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.