The Regularization-Homotopy method for the two-dimensional fredholm integral equations of the first kind

Abstract

In this work, we consider two-dimensional linear and nonlinear Fredholm integral equations of the first kind. The combination of the regularization method and the homotopy perturbation method, or shortly, the regularization-homotopy method is used to find a solution to the equation. The application of this method is based upon converting the first kind of equation to the second kind by applying the regularization method. Then the homotopy perturbation method is employed to the resulting second kind of equation to obtain a solution. A few examples including linear and nonlinear equations are provided to show the validity and applicability of this approach.