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Traveling wave solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations
We propose a simple algebraic method for generating classes of traveling wave
solutions for a variety of partial differential equations of current interest
in nonlinear science. This procedure applies equally well to equations which
may or may not be integrable. We illustrate the method with two distinct
classes of models, one with solutions including compactons in a class of models
inspired by the Rosenau-Hyman, Rosenau-Pikovsky and Rosenau-Hyman-Staley
equations, and the other with solutions including peakons in a system which
generalizes the Camassa-Holm, Degasperis-Procesi and Dullin-Gotwald-Holm
equations. In both cases, we obtain new classes of solutions not studied
before.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures; version to be published in Applied Mathematics
Letter
Wave Solutions
In classical continuum physics, a wave is a mechanical disturbance. Whether
the disturbance is stationary or traveling and whether it is caused by the
motion of atoms and molecules or the vibration of a lattice structure, a wave
can be understood as a specific type of solution of an appropriate mathematical
equation modeling the underlying physics. Typical models consist of partial
differential equations that exhibit certain general properties, e.g.,
hyperbolicity. This, in turn, leads to the possibility of wave solutions.
Various analytical techniques (integral transforms, complex variables,
reduction to ordinary differential equations, etc.) are available to find wave
solutions of linear partial differential equations. Furthermore, linear
hyperbolic equations with higher-order derivatives provide the mathematical
underpinning of the phenomenon of dispersion, i.e., the dependence of a wave's
phase speed on its wavenumber. For systems of nonlinear first-order hyperbolic
equations, there also exists a general theory for finding wave solutions. In
addition, nonlinear parabolic partial differential equations are sometimes said
to posses wave solutions, though they lack hyperbolicity, because it may be
possible to find solutions that translate in space with time. Unfortunately, an
all-encompassing methodology for solution of partial differential equations
with any possible combination of nonlinearities does not exist. Thus, nonlinear
wave solutions must be sought on a case-by-case basis depending on the
governing equation.Comment: 22 pages, 3 figures; to appear in the Mathematical Preliminaries and
Methods section of the Encyclopedia of Thermal Stresses, ed. R.B. Hetnarski,
Springer (2014), to appea
Symbolic computation of hyperbolic tangent solutions for nonlinear differential-difference equations
A new algorithm is presented to find exact traveling wave solutions of
differential-difference equations in terms of tanh functions. For systems with
parameters, the algorithm determines the conditions on the parameters so that
the equations might admit polynomial solutions in tanh.
Examples illustrate the key steps of the algorithm. Parallels are drawn
through discussion and example to the tanh-method for partial differential
equations.
The new algorithm is implemented in Mathematica. The package
DDESpecialSolutions.m can be used to automatically compute traveling wave
solutions of nonlinear polynomial differential-difference equations. Use of the
package, implementation issues, scope, and limitations of the software are
addressed.Comment: 19 pages submitted to Computer Physics Communications. The software
can be downloaded at http://www.mines.edu/fs_home/wherema
An Extended Auxiliary Function Method and Its Application in mKdV Equation
An extended auxiliary function method is presented for constructing exact traveling wave solutions to nonlinear partial differential equations. The main idea of this method is to take full advantage of the solutions to the elliptic equation to construct exact traveling wave solutions for nonlinear partial differential equations. mKdV equation is chosen to illustrate the application of the extended auxiliary function method. Consequently, more new exact traveling wave solutions are derived that are not obtained by the previously known methods
Exact traveling wave solutions to the Klein–Gordon equation using the novel (G′/G)-expansion method
AbstractThe novel (G′/G)-expansion method is one of the powerful methods that appeared in recent times for establishing exact traveling wave solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations. Exact traveling wave solutions in terms of hyperbolic, trigonometric and rational functions to the cubic nonlinear Klein–Gordon equation via this method are obtained in this article. The efficiency of this method for finding exact solutions and traveling wave solutions has been demonstrated. It is shown that the novel (G′/G)-expansion method is a simple and valuable mathematical tool for solving nonlinear evolution equations (NLEEs) in applied mathematics, mathematical physics and engineering
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