New periodic wave solutions for the shallow water equations and the generalized Klein–Gordon equation

The periodic wave solutions and the corresponding solitary solutions for the shallow water equations and the generalized Klein–Gordon equation are obtained by means of mapping method. The solutions obtained in this paper include as well the shock wave solution, complex line period, complex line soliton and rational solutions. Moreover, the obtained solutions are degenerated in terms of hyperbolic function solutions and trigonometric function solutions when the modulus m of the Jacobi elliptic function is driven to 1 and 0, respectively. The previously known periodic and solitary wave solutions are recovered. Many new results are presented.     

Bifurcation studies on travelling wave solutions for an integrable nonlinear wave equation

By using the method of planar dynamical systems to an integrable nonlinear wave equation, the existence of periodic travelling wave, solitary wave and kink wave solutions is proved in the different parametric conditions. The phase portraits of the travelling wave system are given. It can be shown that the existence of singular curves in the travelling wave system is the reason why the travelling wave solutions lose their smoothness. Moreover, the so-called W/M-shaped solitary wave solutions are obtained.     

Periodic Wave Solutions and Their Limits for the Modified Kd V–KP Equations

In this paper, we use the bifurcation method of dynamical systems to study the periodic wave solutions and their limits for the modified Kd V–KP equations. Some explicit periodic wave solutions are obtained. These solutions contain smooth periodic wave solutions and periodic blow-up solutions. Their limits contain solitary wave solutions, periodic wave solutions, kink wave solutions and unbounded solutions.     

Exact solitary wave solutions of nonlinear wave equations

The hyperbolic function method for nonlinear wave equations is presented. In support of a computer algebra system, many exact solitary wave solutions of a class of nonlinear wave equations are obtained via the method. The method is based on the fact that the solitary wave solutions are essentially of a localized nature. Writing the solitary wave solutions of a nonlinear wave equation as the polynomials of hyperbolic functions, the nonlinear wave equation can be changed into a nonlinear system of algebraic equations. The system can be solved via Wu Elimination or Gr?bner base method. The exact solitary wave solutions of the nonlinear wave equation are obtained including many new exact solitary wave solutions.     

New travelling wave solutions for a nonlinearly dispersive wave equation of Camassa-Holm equation type

In this paper, the integral bifurcation method is used to study a nonlinearly dispersive wave equation of Camassa-Holm equation type. Loop soliton solution and periodic loop soliton solution, solitary wave solution and solitary cusp wave solution, smooth periodic wave solution and non-smooth periodic wave solution of this equation are obtained, their dynamic characters are discussed. Some solutions have an interesting phenomenon that one solution admits multi-waves when parameters vary.     

Peaked wave solutions of CH-r equation

In this paper the qualitative analysis methods of planar autonomous systems and numerica simu-lation are used to investigate the peaked wave solutions of CH-r equation. Some explicit expressions of peakedsolitary wave solutions and peaked periodic wave solutions are obtained,and some of their relationships arerevealed.Why peaked points are generated is discussed.     

The extended Riccati equation method for travelling wave solutions of ZK equation

In this article, the extended Riccati equation method is applied to seeking more general exact travelling wave solutions of the ZK equation. The traveling wave solutions are expressed by the hyperbolic functions, the trigonometric functions and the rational functions. When the parameters are taken as special values, the solitary wave solutions are obtained from the hyperbolic function solutions. Similarly, the periodic wave solutions are also obtained from the trigonometric function solutions. The approach developed in this paper is effective and it may also be used for solving many other nonlinear evolution equations in mathematical physics.     

Bifurcations of traveling wave solutions in a coupled non-linear wave equation

By using the theory of planar dynamical systems to a coupled non-linear wave equation, the existence of solitary wave solutions and uncountably infinite, many smooth and non-smooth, periodic wave solutions is obtained. Under different parametric conditions, various sufficient conditions to guarantee the existence of the above solutions are given.     

Solitary wave and chaotic behavior of traveling wave solutions for the coupled KdV equations

Using the method of dynamical systems to study the coupled KdV system, some exact explicit parametric representations of the solitary wave and periodic wave solutions are obtained in the given parameter regions. Chaotic behavior of traveling wave solutions is determined.     

Qualitative analysis and explicit traveling wave solutions for the Davey–Stewartson equation

In this paper, we use the bifurcation method of dynamical systems to study the traveling wave solutions for the Davey–Stewartson equation. A number of traveling wave solutions are obtained. Those solutions contain explicit periodic wave solutions, periodic blow‐up wave solutions, unbounded wave solutions, kink profile solitary wave solutions, and solitary wave solutions. Relations of the traveling wave solutions are given. Some previous results are extended. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Symbolic computation of exact solutions for a nonlinear evolution equation

In this paper, by means of the Jacobi elliptic function method, exact double periodic wave solutions and solitary wave solutions of a nonlinear evolution equation are presented. It can be shown that not only the obtained solitary wave solutions have the property of loop-shaped, cusp-shaped and hump-shaped for different values of parameters, but also different types of double periodic wave solutions are possible, namely periodic loop-shaped wave solutions, periodic hump-shaped wave solutions or periodic cusp-shaped wave solutions. Furthermore, periodic loop-shaped wave solutions will be degenerated to loop-shaped solitary wave solutions for the same values of parameters. So do cusp-shaped solutions and hump-shaped solutions. All these solutions are new and first reported here.     

Bifurcations of travelling wave solutions for the generalized KP-BBM equation

By using the bifurcation theory of dynamical systems to the generalized Kadomtsov-Petviashvili-Benjamin-Bona-Mahony equation, the existence of solitary wave solutions, compactons solution, non-smooth periodic cusp wave solutions and uncountably infinite many smooth periodic wave solutions is obtained. Under different parametric conditions, various sufficient conditions to guarantee the existence of the above solutions are given. Some exact explicit parametric representations of the above waves are determined.     

Bifurcations of traveling wave solutions for the generalized coupled Hirota–Satsuma KdV system

In this paper, the bifurcations of solitary, kink and periodic waves for the generalized coupled Hirota–Satsuma KdV system are studied by using the bifurcation theory of planar dynamical systems. Bifurcation parameter sets are shown. Under given parameter conditions, explicit formulas for solitary wave solutions, kink wave solutions and periodic wave solutions are obtained.     

Exact traveling wave solutions and bifurcations for the Dullin-Gottwald-Holm equation

Utilizing the methods of dynamical system theory, the Dullin-Gottwald-Holm equation is studied in this paper. The dynamical behaviors of the traveling wave solutions and their bifurcations are presented in different parameter regions. Furthermore, the exact explicit forms of all possible bounded solutions, such as solitary wave solutions, periodic wave solutions and breaking loop wave solutions are obtained.     

New exact periodic solitary wave solutions for Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation

Exact periodic solitary wave solutions for Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation are obtained by using the Hirota bilinear method. The result shows that there exists periodic solitary waves in the different directions for (2 + 1)-dimensional Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation.     

Construction of periodic and solitary wave solutions by the extended Jacobi elliptic function expansion method

In this paper, an extended Jacobi elliptic function expansion method is used with a computerized symbolic computation for constructing the exact periodic solutions of some polynomials or nonlinear evolution equations. The validity and reliability of the method is tested by its applications on a class of nonlinear evolution equations of special interest in nonlinear mathematical physics. As a result, many exact travelling wave solutions are obtained which include new solitary or shock wave solution and envelope solitary and shock wave solutions. The method is straightforward and concise, and it can also be applied to other nonlinear evolution equations in mathematical physics.     

Bifurcations of travelling wave solutions for a variant of Camassa–Holm equation

By using the theory of planar dynamical systems to a variant of Camassa–Holm equation, the existence of periodic wave and solitary wave is proved. In different regions of the parametric space, the sufficient conditions to guarantee the existence of the above solutions are given. In some conditions, exact parametric representations of these waves in explicit form are obtained.     

New explicit solutions for the Klein-Gordon equation with cubic nonlinearity

In this paper, we investigate Klein-Gordon equation with cubic nonlinearity. All explicit expressions of the bounded travelling wave solutions for the equation are obtained by using the bifurcation method and qualitative theory of dynamical systems. These solutions contain bell-shaped solitary wave solutions, kink-shaped solitary wave solutions and Jacobi elliptic function periodic solutions. Moreover, we point out the region which these periodic wave solutions lie in. We present the relation between the bounded travelling wave solution and the energy level h. We find that these periodic wave solutions tend to the corresponding solitary wave solutions as h increases or decreases. Finally, for some special selections of the energy level h, it is shown that the exact periodic solutions evolute into solitary wave solution.     

Bifurcations and exact travelling wave solutions of M-N-Wang equation

By using the method of dynamical systems to Mikhailov-Novikov-Wang Equation, through qualitative analysis, we obtain bifurcations of phase portraits of the traveling system of the derivative $\phi(\xi)$ of the wave function $\psi(\xi)$. Under different parameter conditions, for $\phi(\xi)$, exact explicit solitary wave solutions, periodic peakon and anti-peakon solutions are obtained. By integrating known $\phi(\xi)$, nine exact explicit traveling wave solutions of $\psi(\xi)$ are given.     

Doubly periodic solutions of the modified Kawahara equation

Some doubly periodic (Jacobi elliptic function) solutions of the modified Kawahara equation are presented in closed form. Our approach is to introduce a new auxiliary ordinary differential equation and use its Jacobi elliptic function solutions to construct doubly periodic solutions of the modified Kawahara equation. When the module m → 1, these solutions degenerate to the exact solitary wave solutions of the equation. Then we reveal the relation of some exact solutions for the modified Kawahara equation obtained by other authors.