A new rational Legendre neural network for solving the Blasius equation

Volume 4, Issue 1
April 2025
Pages 1-9

Document Type : Regular paper

Authors

Department of Computer and Data Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract
In this paper, we present a novel artificial neural network framework for solving the Blasius equation, a nonlinear ordinary differential equation defined on a semi-infinite domain. Our experiments revealed that traditional activation functions, such as Tanh and ReLU, did not produce satisfactory results. To address this, we employed custom activation functions based on Rational Legendre polynomials, which demonstrated superior performance in approximating the solution. The results highlight the effectiveness and potential of this approach, offering a valuable contribution to the scientific community for addressing similar nonlinear differential equations.

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  • Receive Date 03 March 2025
  • Revise Date 18 March 2025
  • Accept Date 03 April 2025