A discussion about the solutions of single wall carbon nanotube

This article is devoted to analyze the deformation of a single wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT)interacting with a curved bundle of nanotubes. As we know, what causes this deformation is vander Waals forces. To investigate the deformation, we assume that the bundle of nanotubes is rigid.In order to obtain an analytical solution, first the van der Waals force is approximated by a bilinearmodel and then Homotopy Perturbation Method (HPM) is applied to solve the equation that modelthe deformation of nanotubes. Obtained results by applied technique are in good agreement withthose obtained by other numerical methods and physical experiments but with rather simplecomputational work.

Keywords:

Homotopy Perturbation Method , Nanotubes