eng Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Numerical Analysis 2014-01-03 2 1 11 13 10.12691/ajna-2-1-3 AJNA2014213 article E. Abdolmaleki saedalat@yahoo.com 1 S.A. Yousefi 2 Department of Applied Mathematics, Tonekabon Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon, Iran Department of Applied Mathematics, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran In this paper, we applied He's variational iteration method (VIM) to solve nonlinear porous media equations. The main advantage of this method is the flexibility to give approximate solutions to nonlinear problems without linearization or discretization. The results show that this method is simple and effective. http://pubs.sciepub.com/ajna/2/1/3/ajna-2-1-3.pdf nonlinear heat equationdegenerate parabolic differential equationporous media equationvariational iteration method