Collisional breakage population balance equation: An analytical approach

Abstract

This work presents a unique semi-analytical approach based on the homotopy analysis method (HAM), called accelerated HAM, recently proposed in (Hussain et al., “Semi-analytical methods for solving non-linear differential equations: A review.”, JMAA, 2023), to solve the collisional breakage population balance model, which is an integro-partial differential equation. We compare our findings with those obtained using the Adomian decomposition method, a well-known technique for solving various forms of differential equations. By decomposing the non-linear operator, we investigate how to utilize the convergence control parameter to expedite the convergence of the HAM solution towards its precise value in accelerated HAM. The other objective of the article is to examine the theoretical convergence analysis of the two proposed methods. Additionally, we conduct theoretical research on the error estimates for both the techniques. To validate our schemes, several numerical examples are considered and the numerical simulations demonstrate that the suggested techniques provide accurate estimates for the solution and moments of the collisional breakage equation.