A new method for homoclinic solutions of ordinary differential equations

Consideration is given to the homoclinic solutions of ordinary differential equations. We first review the Melnikov analysis to obtain Melnikov function, when the perturbation parameter is zero and when the differential equation has a hyperbolic equilibrium. Since Melnikov analysis fails, using Homotopy Analysis Method (HAM, see [Liao SJ. Beyond perturbation: introduction to the homotopy analysis method. Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall/CRC Press; 2003; Liao SJ. An explicit, totally analytic approximation of Blasius’ viscous flow problems. Int J Non-Linear Mech 1999;34(4):759–78; Liao SJ. On the homotopy analysis method for nonlinear problems. Appl Math Comput 2004;147(2):499–513] and others [Abbasbandy S. The application of the homotopy analysis method to nonlinear equations arising in heat transfer. Phys Lett A 2006;360:109–13; Hayat T, Sajid M. On analytic solution for thin film flow of a forth grade fluid down a vertical cylinder. Phys Lett A, in press; Sajid M, Hayat T, Asghar S. Comparison between the HAM and HPM solutions of thin film flows of non-Newtonian fluids on a moving belt. Nonlinear Dyn, in press]), we obtain homoclinic solution for a differential equation with zero perturbation parameter and with hyperbolic equilibrium. Then we show that the Melnikov type function can be obtained as a special case of this homotopy analysis method. Finally, homoclinic solutions are obtained (for nontrivial examples) analytically by HAM, and are presented through graphs.     

On the selection of auxiliary functions, operators, and convergence control parameters in the application of the Homotopy Analysis Method to nonlinear differential equations: A general approach

The Homotopy Analysis Method of Liao [Liao SJ. Beyond perturbation: introduction to the Homotopy Analysis Method. Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall/CRC Press; 2003] has proven useful in obtaining analytical solutions to various nonlinear differential equations. In this method, one has great freedom to select auxiliary functions, operators, and parameters in order to ensure the convergence of the approximate solutions and to increase both the rate and region of convergence. We discuss in this paper the selection of the initial approximation, auxiliary linear operator, auxiliary function, and convergence control parameter in the application of the Homotopy Analysis Method, in a fairly general setting. Further, we discuss various convergence requirements on solutions.     

二阶代数微分方程亚纯解的增长性估计

本文研究了代数微分方程亚纯解的增长级.运用正规族理论,给出了某类二阶代数微分方程亚纯解的增长级的一个估计,该估计依赖于方程的有理函数系数.推广了2001年廖良文与杨重骏的一个结果.     

Prediction of multiplicity of solutions of nonlinear boundary value problems: Novel application of homotopy analysis method

The purpose of the present paper is to introduce a method, probably for the first time, to predict the multiplicity of the solutions of nonlinear boundary value problems. This procedure can be easily applied on nonlinear ordinary differential equations with boundary conditions. This method, as will be seen, besides anticipating of multiplicity of the solutions of the nonlinear differential equations, calculates effectively the all branches of the solutions (on the condition that, there exist such solutions for the problem) analytically at the same time. In this manner, for practical use in science and engineering, this method might give new unfamiliar class of solutions which is of fundamental interest and furthermore, the proposed approach convinces to apply it on nonlinear equations by today’s powerful software programs so that it does not need tedious stages of evaluation and can be used without studying the whole theory. In fact, this technique has new point of view to well-known powerful analytical method for nonlinear differential equations namely homotopy analysis method (HAM). Everyone familiar to HAM knows that the convergence-controller parameter plays important role to guarantee the convergence of the solutions of nonlinear differential equations. It is shown that the convergence-controller parameter plays a fundamental role in the prediction of multiplicity of solutions and all branches of solutions are obtained simultaneously by one initial approximation guess, one auxiliary linear operator and one auxiliary function. The validity and reliability of the method is tested by its application to some nonlinear exactly solvable differential equations which is practical in science and engineering.     

Unicity of meromorphic solutions of partial differential equations

In this survey, results on the existence, growth, uniqueness, and value distribution of meromorphic (or entire) solutions of linear partial differential equations of the second order with polynomial coefficients that are similar or different from that of meromorphic solutions of linear ordinary differential equations have been obtained. We have characterized those entire solutions of a special partial differential equation that relate to Jacobian polynomials. We prove a uniqueness theorem of meromorphic functions of several complex variables sharing three values taking into account multiplicity such that one of the meromorphic functions satisfies a nonlinear partial differential equations of the first order with meromorphic coefficients, which extends the Brosch??s uniqueness theorem related to meromorphic solutions of nonlinear ordinary differential equations of the first order.     

Reduced differential transform method for nonlinear integral member of Kadomtsev–Petviashvili hierarchy differential equations

The main objective of this paper is to use the reduced differential to transform method (RDTM) for finding the analytical approximate solutions of two integral members of nonlinear Kadomtsev–Petviashvili (KP) hierarchy equations. Comparing the approximate solutions which obtained by RDTM with the exact solutions to show that the RDTM is quite accurate, reliable and can be applied for many other nonlinear partial differential equations. The RDTM produces a solution with few and easy computation. This method is a simple and efficient method for solving the nonlinear partial differential equations. The analysis shows that our analytical approximate solutions converge very rapidly to the exact solutions.     

Exact solutions for a class of nonlinear evolution equations: A unified ansätze approach

In this paper, we propose a modified generalized transformation for constructing analytic solutions to nonlinear differential equations. This improved unified ansätze is utilized to acquire exact solutions that are general solutions of simpler equations that are either integrable or possess special solutions. The ansätze is constructed via the choice of an integrable differential operator or a basis set of functions. The technique is implemented to obtain several families of exact solutions for a class of nonlinear evolution equations with nonlinear term of any order. In particular, the Klein–Gordon, the Sine–Gordon and Landau–Ginburg–Higgs equations are chosen as examples to illustrate the method.     

Auxiliary equation method for solving nonlinear Wick-type partial differential equations

Using the solutions of an auxiliary differential equation, a direct algebraic method is described to construct several kinds of exact travelling wave solutions for some Wick-type nonlinear partial differential equations. By this method some physically important nonlinear equations are investigated and new exact travelling wave solutions are explicitly obtained. In addition, the links between Wick-type partial differential equations and variable coefficient partial differential equations are also clarified generally.     

Exact solutions of some nonlinear systems of partial differential equations by using the first integral method

In recent years, many approaches have been utilized for finding the exact solutions of nonlinear systems of partial differential equations. In this paper, the first integral method introduced by Feng is adopted for solving some important nonlinear systems of partial differential equations, including, KdV, Kaup–Boussinesq and Wu–Zhang systems, analytically. By means of this method, some exact solutions for these systems of equations are formally obtained. The results obtained confirm that the proposed method is an efficient technique for analytic treatment of a wide variety of nonlinear systems of partial differential equations.     

Seven common errors in finding exact solutions of nonlinear differential equations

We analyze the common errors of the recent papers in which the solitary wave solutions of nonlinear differential equations are presented. Seven common errors are formulated and classified. These errors are illustrated by using multiple examples of the common errors from the recent publications. We show that many popular methods in finding the exact solutions are equivalent each other. We demonstrate that some authors look for the solitary wave solutions of nonlinear ordinary differential equations and do not take into account the well - known general solutions of these equations. We illustrate several cases when authors present some functions for describing solutions but do not use arbitrary constants. As this fact takes place the redundant solutions of differential equations are found. A few examples of incorrect solutions by some authors are presented. Several other errors in finding the exact solutions of nonlinear differential equations are also discussed.     

Meromorphic solutions of nonlinear ordinary differential equations

Exact solutions of some popular nonlinear ordinary differential equations are analyzed taking their Laurent series into account. Using the Laurent series for solutions of nonlinear ordinary differential equations we discuss the nature of many methods for finding exact solutions. We show that most of these methods are conceptually identical to one another and they allow us to have only the same solutions of nonlinear ordinary differential equations.     

Generalization of the simplest equation method for nonlinear non-autonomous differential equations

It is known that the simplest equation method is applied for finding exact solutions of autonomous nonlinear differential equations. In this paper we extend this method for finding exact solutions of non-autonomous nonlinear differential equations (DEs). We applied the generalized approach to look for exact special solutions of three Painlevé equations. As ODE of lower order than Painlevé equations the Riccati equation is taken. The obtained exact special solutions are expressed in terms of the special functions defined by linear ODEs of the second order.     

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.     

Systems of matrix rational differential equations arising in connection with linear stochastic systems with Markovian jumping

In this paper, a class of systems of matrix nonlinear differential equations containing as particular cases the systems of coupled Riccati differential equations arising in connection with control of some linear stochastic systems is considered.The system of differential equations considered in this paper are converted in a suitable nonlinear differential equation on a finite-dimensional Hilbert space adequately choosen.This allows us to use the positivity properties of the linear evolution operator defined by the linear differential equations of Lyapunov type.Our aim is to investigate properties of stabilizing and bounded solutions of the considered differential equations and to obtain some conditions ensuring the existence of such solutions.Conditions providing the existence of a maximal solution (minimal solution respectively) with respect to some classes of global solutions are presented. It is shown that if the coefficients of the equations are periodic functions all these special solutions (stabilizing, maximal, minimal) are periodic functions, too.Whenever possible the probabilistic arguments were avoided and so the results proved in the paper appear as results in the field of differential equations with interest in themselves.     

An observation on the periodic solutions to nonlinear physical models by means of the auxiliary equation with a sixth-degree nonlinear term

It is a fact that in auxiliary equation methods, the exact solutions of different types of auxiliary equations may produce new types of exact travelling wave solutions to nonlinear equations. In this manner, various auxiliary equations of first-order nonlinear ordinary differential equation with distinct-degree nonlinear terms are examined and, by means of symbolic computation, the new solutions of original auxiliary equation of first-order nonlinear ordinary differential equation with sixth-degree nonlinear term are presented. Consequently, the novel exact solutions of the generalized Klein–Gordon equation and the active-dissipative dispersive media equation are found out for illustration purposes. They are also applicable, where conventional perturbation method fails to provide any solution of the nonlinear problems under study.     

A unified ansätze for the solution of nonlinear differential equations

The aim of the paper is to propose a generalized ansätze for constructing exact solutions to nonlinear ordinary differential equations. This unified transformation is manipulated to acquire analytical solutions that are general solutions of simpler linear or nonlinear systems of ordinary differential equations that are either integrable or possess special solutions. The method is implemented to obtain several families of traveling wave solutions for a class of nonlinear evolution equations and for higher order wave equations of KdV type (I).     

A Note on Some Sub-Equation Methods and New Types of Exact Travelling Wave Solutions for Two Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

Sub-equation methods are used for constructing exact travelling wave solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations. The key idea of these methods is to take full advantage of all kinds of special solutions of sub-equation, which is usually a nonlinear ordinary differential equation. We present a function transformation which not only gives us a clear relation among these sub-equation methods, but also can be used to obtain the general solutions of these sub-equations. And then new exact travelling wave solutions of the CKdV-MKdV equation and the CKdV equations as applications of this transformation are obtained, and the approach presented in this paper can be also applied to other nonlinear partial differential equations.      

2+1维广义浅水波方程的类孤子解与周期解

该文基于一个Riccati方程组，提出了一个新的广义投影Ric cati展开法，该方法直接简单并能构造非线性微分方程更多的新的解析解。利用该算法研究了(2+1)维广义浅水波方程，并求得了许多新的精确解，包括类孤子解和周期解。该算法也能应用到其它非线性微分方程中。     

Asymptotic behavior of solutions of second-order nonlinear impulsive differential equations

In this work, the asymptotic behavior of all solutions of second-order nonlinear ordinary differential equations with impulses is investigated. By impulsive differential inequality and Riccati transformation, sufficient conditions of asymptotic behavior of all solutions of second-order nonlinear ordinary differential equations with impulses are obtained. An example is also inserted to illustrate the impulsive effect.     

Symmetry analysis and some exact solutions of cylindrically symmetric null fields in general relativity

The symmetry reduction method based on the Fréchet derivative of the differential operators is applied to investigate symmetries of the Field equations in general relativity corresponding to cylindrically symmetric space–time, that is a coupled system of nonlinear partial differential equations of second order. More specifically, this technique yields invariant transformation that reduce the given system of partial differential equations to a system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations. Some of the reduced systems are further studied for exact solutions.