Fast sweeping method for the factored eikonal equation

We develop a fast sweeping method for the factored eikonal equation. By decomposing the solution of a general eikonal equation as the product of two factors: the first factor is the solution to a simple eikonal equation (such as distance) or a previously computed solution to an approximate eikonal equation. The second factor is a necessary modification/correction. Appropriate discretization and a fast sweeping strategy are designed for the equation of the correction part. The key idea is to enforce the causality of the original eikonal equation during the Gauss–Seidel iterations. Using extensive numerical examples we demonstrate that (1) the convergence behavior of the fast sweeping method for the factored eikonal equation is the same as for the original eikonal equation, i.e., the number of iterations for the Gauss–Seidel iterations is independent of the mesh size, (2) the numerical solution from the factored eikonal equation is more accurate than the numerical solution directly computed from the original eikonal equation, especially for point sources.     

An exact solution of Fisher equation and its stability

In this paper, the Fisher equation is analysed. One of its travelling wave solution is obtained by comparing it with KdV--Burgers (KdVB) equation. Its amplitude, width and speed are investigated. The instability for the higher order disturbances to the solution of the Fisher equation is also studied.     

Solutions of CDG Equation and Modified CDG Equation

This article puts forward a new way to find solutions of CDG equation. The main results are:(i) According to the Lax pair of CDG equation, we introduce the modified CDG equation. (ii) An invariance depending on two parameters of M-CDG equation is found. (iii) Some solutions for CDG equation are obtained by using the invariance.     

Soliton Asymptotics of Solutions of the Sine-Gordon Equation

An asymptotic analysis of the Marchenko integral equation for the sine-Gordon equation is presented. The results are used for a construction of soliton asymptotics of decreasing and some non-decreasing solutions of the sine-Gordon equation. The soliton phases are shown to have an additional shift with respect to the reflectionless case caused by the non-zero reflection coefficient of the corresponding Dirac operator. Explicit formulas for the phases are also obtained. The results demonstrate an interesting phenomenon of splitting of non-decreasing solutions into an infinite series of asymptotic solitons.     

The Einstein-Dirac Equation in Robertson-Walker Space-Time Does Not Admit Standard Solutions

The Einstein-Dirac equation is considered in the Robertson-Walker space-time. Solutions of the equation are looked for in the class of standard solutions of the Dirac equation. It is shown that the Einstein-Dirac equation does not have standard solutions for both massive and massless Dirac field. Also superpositions of massive standard solutions are not solutions of the Einstein-Dirac equation. The result, that is briefly commented, is coherent and complementary to other existing results.     

The stochastic Boltzmann equation and hydrodynamic fluctuations

Based on the assumption of a kinetic equation in space, a stochastic differential equation of the one-particle distribution is derived without the use of the linear approximation. It is just the Boltzmann equation with a Langevin-fluctuating force term. The result is the general form of the linearized Boltzmann equation with fluctuations found by Bixon and Zwanzig and by Fox and Uhlenbeck. It reduces to the general Landau-Lifshitz equations of fluid dynamics in the presence of fluctuations in a similar hydrodynamic approximation to that used by Chapman and Enskog with respect to the Boltzmann equation.This work received financial support from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.     

Dirac Equation in Lemaįtre—Tolman—Bondi Models

The Dirac equation is studied for a sufficiently large class of Lematre—Tolman—Bondi cosmological models. While the angular equation (whose solution is known) separates directly, the spatial and temporal dependence de-couples only after a suitable separation procedure. The separated time equation is integrated by series. The separated spatial equation still depends on an arbitrary function relative to the integration of the cosmological model.     

Global existence in L1 for the Enskog equation and convergence of the solutions to solutions of the Boltzmann equation

For the Enskog equation in a box an existence theorem is proved for initial data with finite mass, energy, and entropy. Then, by letting the diameter of the molecules go to zero, the weak convergence of solutions of the Enskog equation to solutions of the Boltzmann equation is proved.     

Analytic Approximations for Soliton Solutions of Short-Wave Models for Camassa-Holm and Degasperis-Procesi Equations

In this paper, the short-wave model equations are investigated, which are associated with the Camassa- Holm （CH） and Degasperis Procesi （DP） shallow-water wave equations. Firstly, by means of the transformation of the independent variables and the travelling wave transformation, the partial differential equation is reduced to an ordinary differential equation. Secondly, the equation is solved by homotopy analysis method. Lastly, by the transformatioas back to the original independent variables, the solution of the original partial differential equation is obtained. The two types of solutions of the short-wave models are obtained in parametric form, one is one-cusp soliton for the CH equation while the other one is one-loop soliton for the DP equation. The approximate analytic solutions expressed by a series of exponential functions agree well with the exact solutions. It demonstrates the validity and great potential of homotopy analysis method for complicated nonlinear solitary wave problems.     

Peaked Traveling Wave Solutions to a Generalized Novikov Equation with Cubic and Quadratic Nonlinearities

The Camassa-Holm equation, Degasperis-Procesi equation and Novikov equation are the three typical integrable evolution equations admitting peaked solitons. In this paper, a generalized Novikov equation with cubic and quadratic nonlinearities is studied, which is regarded as a generalization of these three well-known studied equations. It is shown that this equation admits single peaked traveling wave solutions, periodic peaked traveling wave solutions, and multi-peaked traveling wave solutions.     

Exact Solutions of a Fractional-Type Differential-Difference Equation Related to Discrete MKdV Equation

The extended simplest equation method is used to solve exactly a new differential-difference equation of fractional-type, proposed by Narita [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 381 （2011） 963] quite recently, related to the discrete MKdV equation. It is shown that the model supports three types of exact solutions with arbitrary parameters： hyperbolic, trigonometric and rational, which have not been reported before.     

CONDITIONAL SIMILARITY REDUCTION APPROACH: JIMBO－MIWA EQUATION

The direct method developed by Clarkson and Kruskal (1989 J. Math. Phys. 30 2201) for finding the symmetry reductions of a nonlinear system is extended to find the conditional similarity solutions. Using the method of the Jimbo－Miwa (JM) equation, we find that three well-known (2+1)-dimensional models－the asymmetric Nizhnik--Novikov－Veselov equation, the breaking soliton equation and the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation－can all be obtained as the conditional similarity reductions of the JM equation.     

New exact travelling wave solutions for the Ostrovsky equation

In this Letter, auxiliary equation method is proposed for constructing more general exact solutions of nonlinear partial differential equation with the aid of symbolic computation. In order to illustrate the validity and the advantages of the method we choose the Ostrovsky equation. As a result, many new and more general exact solutions have been obtained for the equation.     

Relativistic remnants in the reduction of the Bethe-Salpeter equation to the Schrödinger equation

Following Salpeter, the Bethe-Salpeter equation for the bound system of two oppositely charged particles is reduced to a Schrödinger equation for each of the following cases: (a) both particles are spin 1/2 particles, (b) one particle is a spinor while the other is spinless, and (c) both particles are spinless. It is shown that ife is the magnitude of charge carried by each of the particles whose masses are set equal to the electron and proton masses then, strictly speaking, only in case (a) do we obtain the familiar Schrödinger equation for the hydrogen atom. The latter equation is recovered in the other two cases only if relativistic remnants—terms of the order of 10^?5 and smaller—are neglected in comparison with unity. Attention is drawn to a situation where such remnants may not be negligibly small, viz. the problem of confinement of quarks.     

Langevin equation with multi-Poissonian noise

A general master equation is shown to be equivalent to a Langevin equation whose noise is expressed as a linear superposition of Poissonian random variables (multi-Poissonian noise). As typical examples, a birth and death process and a Boltzmann-Langevin equation are given.     

Solving Kadomtsev—Petviashvili Equation via a New Decomposition and Darboux Transformation

Recently,a new decomposition of the (2 1)-dimensional Kadomtsev-Petviashvili(KP) equation to a (1 1)-dimensional Broer-Kaup (BK) equation and a (1 1)-dimensional high-order BK equation was presented by Lou and Hu.In our paper,a unified Darboux transformation for both the BK equation and high-order BK equation is derived with the help of a gauge transformation of their spectral problems.As application,new explicit soliton-like solutions with five arbitrary parameters for the BK equation,high-order BK equation and KP equation are obtained.     

Ion-acoustic waves in plasma of warm ions and isothermal electrons using time-fractional KdV equation

The ion-acoustic solitary wave in collisionless unmagnetized plasma consisting of warm ions-fluid and isothermal electrons is studied using the time fractional KdV equation. The reductive perturbation method has been employed to derive the Korteweg-de Vries equation for small but finite amplitude ion-acoustic wave in warm plasma. The Lagrangian of the time fractional KdV equation is used in a similar form to the Lagrangian of the regular KdV equation with fractional derivative for the time differentiation. The variation of the functional of this Lagrangian leads to the Euler-Lagrange equation that gives the time fractional KdV equation. The variational-iteration method is used to solve the derived time fractional KdV equation. The calculations of the solution are carried out for different values of the time fractional order. These calculations show that the time fractional can be used to modulate the electrostatic potential wave instead of adding a higher order dissipation term to the KdV equation. The results of the present investigation may be applicable to some plasma environments,such as the ionosphere plasma.     

Periodic Waves of a Discrete Higher Order Nonlinear SchrSdinger Equation

The Hirota equation is a higher order extension of the nonlinear Schr6dinger equation by incorporating third order dispersion and one form of self steepening effect, New periodic waves for the discrete Hirota equation are given in terms of elliptic functions. The continuum limit converges to the analogous result for the continuous Hirota equation, while the long wave limit of these discrete periodic patterns reproduces the known resulr of the integrable Ablowitz-Ladik system.     

Trial Equation Method to Nonlinear Evolution Equations with Rank Inhomogeneous:Mathematical Discussions and Its Applications

A trial equation method to nonlinear evolution equation with rank inhomogeneous is given. As applications, the exact traveling wave solutions to some higher-order nonlinear equations such as generalized Boussinesq equation, generalized Pochhammer-Chree equation, KdV-Burgers equation, and KS equation and so on, are obtained. Among these, some results are new. The proposed method is based on the idea of reduction of the order of ODE. Some mathematical details of the proposed method are discussed.