Explicit Peakon solutions to a family of wave-breaking equations

The singular traveling wave solutions of a general 4-parameter family equation which unifies the Camass-Holm equation, the Degasperis-Procesi equation and the Novikov equation are investigated in this paper. At first, we obtain the explicit peakon solutions for one of its specific case that $a=(p+2)c$, $b=(p+1)c$ and $c=1$, which is referred to a generalized Camassa-Holm-Novikov (CHN) equation, by reducing it to a second-order ordinary differential equation (ODE) and solving its associated first-order integrable ODE. By observing the characteristics of peakon solutions to the CHN equation, we construct the peakon solutions for the general 4-parameter breaking wave equation. It reveals that singularities of the peakon solutions come up only when the solutions attain singular points of the equation, which might be a universal principal for all singular traveling wave solutions for wave breaking equations.     

Stability of the line soliton of the KP-II equation under periodic transverse perturbations

We prove the nonlinear stability of the KdV solitary waves considered as solutions of the KP-II equation, with respect to periodic transverse perturbations. Our proof uses a Miura transform which sends the solutions of an mKP-II equation to solutions of the KP-II equation.     

Reduction method for studying localized solutions of neural field equations on the Poincaré disk

We present a reduction method to study localized solutions of an integrodifferential equation defined on the Poincaré disk. This equation arises in a problem of texture perception modeling in the visual cortex. We first derive a partial differential equation which is equivalent to the initial integrodifferential equation and then deduce that localized solutions which are radially symmetric satisfy a fourth order ordinary differential equation.     

Generalized method and its application in the higher-order nonlinear Schrodinger equation in nonlinear optical fibres

A generalized method, which is called the generally projective Riccati equation method, is presented to find more exact solutions of nonlinear differential equations based upon a coupled Riccati equation. As an application of the method, we choose the higher-order nonlinear Schrodinger equation to illustrate the method. As a result more new exact travelling wave solutions are found which include bright soliton solutions, dark soliton solution, new solitary waves, periodic solutions and rational solutions. The new method can be extended to other nonlinear differential equations in mathematical physics.     

Analytical solution of a spatially variable coefficient advection–diffusion equation in up to three dimensions

Analytical solutions are provided for the two- and three-dimensional advection–diffusion equation with spatially variable velocity and diffusion coefficients. We assume that the velocity component is proportional to the distance and that the diffusion coefficient is proportional to the square of the corresponding velocity component. There is a simple transformation which reduces the spatially variable equation to a constant coefficient problem for which there are available a large number of known analytical solutions for general initial and boundary conditions. These solutions are also solutions to the spatially variable advection–diffusion equation. The special form of the spatial coefficients has practical relevance and for divergent free flow represent corner or straining flow. Unlike many other analytical solutions, we use the transformation to obtain solutions of the spatially variable coefficient advection–diffusion equation in two and three dimensions. The analytical solutions, which are simple to evaluate, can be used to validate numerical models for solving the advection–diffusion equation with spatially variable coefficients. For numerical schemes which cannot handle flow stagnation points, we provide analytical solution to the spatially variable coefficient advection–diffusion equation for two-dimensional corner flow which contains an impermeable flow boundary. The impermeable flow boundary coincides with a streamline along which the fluid velocity is finite but the concentration vanishes. This example is useful for validating numerical schemes designed to predict transport around a curved boundary.     

一类半线性椭圆型方程正整体解的存在性

本文研究了一个半线性椭圆型方程正整体解的存在性问题.利用上下解方法克服了非齐次项出现带来的困难,获得了正整体解存在的必要条件,具体地给出了在此条件下正整体解所处的领域.     

Convex solutions of a general similarity boundary layer equation for power-law fluids

This paper is devoted to a general similarity boundary layer equation for power-law fluids, which includes many important similarity boundary layer problems such as the Falker-Skan equation and the magnetohydrodynamic boundary layer equation which arises in the study of self-similar solutions of the two-dimensional steady laminar boundary layer flow for an incompressible electrically conducting power-law fluids along an isolated surface in the presence of an exterior magnetic field orthogonal to the flow. By a rigorous mathematical analysis, the uniqueness, existence and nonexistence results for convex solutions, normal convex solutions and generalized convex solutions to the general similarity boundary layer equation are established. Also the asymptotic behavior of the normal convex solutions at the infinity are displayed.     

Group-invariant solutions, non-group-invariant solutions and conservation laws of Qiao equation

This paper considers a completely integrable nonlinear wave equation which is called Qiao equation. The equation is reduced via Lie symmetry analysis. Two classes of new exact group-invariant solutions are obtained by solving the reduced equations. Specially, a novel technique is proposed for constructing group-invariant solutions and non-group-invariant solutions based on travelling wave solutions. The obtained exact solutions include a set of traveling wave-like solutions with variable amplitude, variable velocity or both. Nonlocal conservation laws of Qiao equation are also obtained with the corresponding infinitesimal generators.     

On soliton solutions for a generalized Hirota–Satsuma coupled KdV equation

The extended homogeneous balance method is used to construct exact traveling wave solutions of a generalized Hirota–Satsuma coupled KdV equation, in which the homogeneous balance method is applied to solve the Riccati equation and the reduced nonlinear ordinary differential equation, respectively. Many exact traveling wave solutions of a generalized Hirota–Satsuma coupled KdV equation are successfully obtained, which contain soliton-like and periodic-like solutions This method is straightforward and concise, and it can also be applied to other nonlinear evolution equations.     

Similarity Reductions of a Generalized Double Dispersion Equation

We apply the Lie–group formalism to deduce symmetries of a generalized double dispersion equation. We derive the ordinary differential equation to which the equation is reduced. We obtain exact solutions which can be expressed by various single and combine nondegenerative Jacobi elliptic function solutions and their degenerative solutions. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

On the suppression of variables in Boolean equations

The resultant of suppression of variables from a Boolean equation is a Boolean equation, derived from the parent equation, whose solutions are exactly those of the parent equation that do not involve the suppressed variables. Two examples in the literature are discussed, in which it is necessary to solve a Boolean equation while excluding solutions involving certain variables. In such cases it would be advantageous to solve the resultant of suppression of those variables rather than solving the original equation and filtering the desired solutions from the results.     

Burgers-BBM方程新的精确解

借助两个推广形式的Riccati方程组和Mathematica软件，求出了Burgers-BBM方程，BBM方程，KDV—Burgers方程的大量新的精确解，包括各种形式的孤立波解和三角函数周期解．     

Existence of kink and unbounded traveling wave solutions of the Casimir equation for the Ito system

This paper study the traveling wave solutions of the Casimir equation for the Ito system. Since the derivative function of the wave function is a solution of a planar dynamical system, from which the exact parametric representations of solutions and bifurcations of phase portraits can be obtained. Thus, we show that corresponding to the compacton solutions of the derivative function system, there exist uncountably infinite kink wave solutions of the wave equation. Corresponding to the positive or negative periodic solutions and homoclinic solutions of the derivative function system, there exist unbounded wave solutions of the wave function equation.     

A search for lump solutions to a combined fourth-order nonlinear PDE in (2+1)-dimensions

We aim to explore new (2+1)-dimensional nonlinear equations which possess lump solutions. Through the Hirota bilinear method, we formulate a combined fourth-order nonlinear equation while guaranteeing the existence of lump solutions. The class of lump solutions is constructed explicitly in terms of the coefficients of the combined nonlinear equation via symbolic computations. Specific examples are discussed to show the richness of the considered combined nonlinear equation. Three dimensional plots and contour plots of specific lump solutions to two specially chosen cases of the equation are made to shed light on the presented lump solutions.     

Well-posedness,wave breaking and peakons for a modified μ-Camassa–Holm equation

Considered herein is a modified periodic Camassa–Holm equation with cubic nonlinearity which is called the modified μ-Camassa–Holm equation. The proposed equation is shown to be formally integrable with the Lax pair and bi-Hamiltonian structure. Local well-posedness of the initial-value problem to the modified μ-Camassa–Holm equation in the Besov space is established. Existence of peaked traveling-wave solutions and formation of singularities of solutions for the equation are then investigated. It is shown that the equation admits a single peaked soliton and multi-peakon solutions with a similar character of the μ-Camassa–Holm equation. Singularities of the solutions can occur only in the form of wave-breaking, and several wave-breaking mechanisms for solutions with certain initial profiles are described in detail.     

Polygons of differential equations for finding exact solutions

A method for finding exact solutions of nonlinear differential equations is presented. Our method is based on the application of polygons corresponding to nonlinear differential equations. It allows one to express exact solutions of the equation studied through solutions of another equation using properties of the basic equation itself. The ideas of power geometry are used and developed. Our approach has a pictorial interpretation, which is illustrative and effective. The method can be also applied for finding transformations between solutions of differential equations. To demonstrate the method application exact solutions of several equations are found. These equations are: the Korteveg–de Vries–Burgers equation, the generalized Kuramoto–Sivashinsky equation, the fourth-order nonlinear evolution equation, the fifth-order Korteveg–de Vries equation, the fifth-order modified Korteveg–de Vries equation and the sixth-order nonlinear evolution equation describing turbulent processes. Some new exact solutions of nonlinear evolution equations are given.     

Traveling waves in the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation

Summary In this paper we consider a modulation (or amplitude) equation that appears in the nonlinear stability analysis of reversible or nearly reversible systems. This equation is the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation with coefficients with small imaginary parts. We regard this equation as a perturbation of the real Ginzburg-Landau equation and study the persistence of the properties of the stationary solutions of the real equation under this perturbation. First we show that it is necessary to consider a two-parameter family of traveling solutions with wave speedυ and (temporal) frequencyθ; these solutions are the natural continuations of the stationary solutions of the real equation. We show that there exists a two-parameter family of traveling quasiperiodic solutions that can be regarded as a direct continuation of the two-parameter family of spatially quasi-periodic solutions of the integrable stationary real Ginzburg-Landau equation. We explicitly determine a region in the (wave speedυ, frequencyθ)-parameter space in which the weakly complex Ginzburg-Landau equation has traveling quasi-periodic solutions. There are two different one-parameter families of heteroclinic solutions in the weakly complex case. One of them consists of slowly varying plane waves; the other is directly related to the analytical solutions due to Bekki & Nozaki [3]. These solutions correspond to traveling localized structures that connect two different periodic patterns. The connections correspond to a one-parameter family of heteroclinic cycles in an o.d.e. reduction. This family of cycles is obtained by determining the limit behaviour of the traveling quasi-periodic solutions as the period of the amplitude goes to ∞. Therefore, the heteroclinic cycles merge into the stationary homoclinic solution of the real Ginzburg-Landau equation in the limit in which the imaginary terms disappear.     

Exact solutions of nonlocal Fokas–Lenells equation

In this paper we propose a nonlocal Fokas–Lenells (FL) equation which can be derived from the Kaup–Newell (KN) linear scattering problem. By constructing the Darboux transformation of nonlocal FL equation, we obtain its different kinds of exact solutions including bright/dark solitons, kink solutions, periodic solutions and several types of mixed soliton solutions. It is shown that the solutions of nonlocal FL equation possess different properties from the normal FL equation.     

Construction of a series of travelling wave solutions to nonlinear equations

In this paper, based on new auxiliary ordinary differential equation with a sixth-degree nonlinear term, we study the (1 + 1)-dimensional combined KdV–MKdV equation, Hirota equation and (2 + 1)-dimensional Davey–Stewartson equation. Then, a series of new types of travelling wave solutions are obtained which include new bell and kink profile solitary wave solutions, triangular periodic wave solutions and singular solutions. The method used here can be also extended to many other nonlinear partial differential equations.     

Some new and general solutions to the compound KdV-Burgers system with nonlinear terms of any order

In this letter, a new Riccati equation expansion method is presented for constructing exact travelling-wave solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations. The main idea of this method is to take full advantage of the solutions of the Riccati equation to construct exact travelling-wave solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations. As a result, some more generalized solutions, which contain triangular periodic solutions, exp function solutions and the soliton-like solutions, are obtained.