Nonstandard perturbation approximation and travelling wave solutions of nonlinear reaction diffusion equations

This paper deals with the construction of a nonstandard numerical method to compute the travelling wave solutions of nonlinear reaction diffusion equations at high wave speeds. Related general properties are studied using the perturbation approximation. At high wave speed the perturbation parameter approaches to zero and the problem exhibits a multiscale character. That is, there are thin layers where the solution varies rapidly, while away from these layers the solution behaves regularly and varies slowly. Most of the conventional methods fail to capture this layer behavior. Thus, the quest for some new numerical techniques that may handle the travelling wave solutions at high wave speeds earns relevance. In this paper, one such parameter robust nonstandard numerical scheme is constructed, in the sense that its numerical solution converges in the maximum norm to the exact solution uniformly well for all finite wave speeds. To overcome the difficulty due to the nonlinearity, the problem is linearized using the quasilinearization process followed by nonstandard finite difference discretization. An extensive amount of analysis is carried out which uses a suitable decomposition of the error into smooth and singular component and a comparison principle combined with appropriate barrier functions. The error estimates are obtained, which ensures uniform convergence of the method. A set of numerical experiment is carried out in support of the predicted theory that validates computationally the theoretical results. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq, 2007     

A series of abundant exact travelling wave solutions for a modified generalized Vakhnenko equation using auxiliary equation method

In this paper, a series of abundant exact travelling wave solutions is established for a modified generalized Vakhnenko equation by using auxiliary equation method. These solutions can be expressed by Jacobi elliptic function. When Jacobi elliptic functions modulus m→1 or 0, the travelling wave solutions degenerate to four types of solutions, namely, the soliton solutions, the hyperbolic function solutions, the trigonometric function solutions, constant solutions.     

Bifurcations of travelling wave solutions for a two-component camassa-holm equation

By using the method of dynamical systems to the two-component generalization of the Camassa-Holm equation, the existence of solitary wave solutions, kink and anti-kink wave solutions, and uncountably infinite many breaking wave solutions, 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. Some exact explicit parametric representations of travelling wave solutions are listed.     

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.     

Existence of travelling wave solutions for the heat equation in infinite cylinders with a nonlinear boundary condition

The existence of travelling wave solutions for the heat equation ∂_t u –Δu = 0 in an infinite cylinder subject to the nonlinear Neumann boundary condition (∂u /∂n) = f (u) is investigated. We show existence of nontrivial solutions for a large class of nonlinearities f. Additionally, the asymptotic behavior at ∞ is studied and regularity properties are established. We use a variational approach in exponentially weighted Sobolev spaces. (© 2008 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

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.     

Symbolic computation and a uniform direct ansätze method for constructing travelling wave solutions of nonlinear evolution equations

On the basis of the computer symbolic system Maple and the tanh method, the Riccati equation method as well as all kinds of improved versions of these methods, we present a further uniform direct ansätze method for constructing travelling wave solutions of nonlinear evolution equations. Compared with the existing methods, the presented method can be used to construct more new general solutions. And we give some examples to illustrate the key step of our method.     

Global solutions for a nonlinear wave equation

In this work the existence of a global solution for the mixed problem associated to the nonlinear equation

is proved in a Hilbert space framework by using Galerkin method.     

Exact travelling wave solutions of the generalized Bretherton equation

We search for exact travelling wave solutions of the generalized Bretherton equation for integer, greater than one, values of the exponent m of the nonlinear term by two methods: the truncated Painlevé expansion method and an algebraic method. We find periodic solutions for m=2 and m=5, to add to those already known for m=3; in all three cases these solutions exist for finite intervals of the wave velocity. We also find a “kink” shaped solitary wave for m=5 and a family of elementary unbounded solutions for arbitrary m.     

BIFURCATIONS OF TRAVELLING WAVE SOLUTIONS FOR THE GENERALIZED DODD-BULLOUGH-MIKHAILOV EQUATION

In this paper, the generalized Dodd-Bullough-Mikhailov equation is studied. The existence of periodic wave and unbounded wave solutions is proved by using the method of bifurcation theory of dynamical systems. 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 travelling solutions are obtained.     

Bifurcations of travelling wave solutions for modified nonlinear dispersive phi-four equation

By using the bifurcation theory of dynamical systems to modified nonlinear dispersive phi-four equation, we analysis all bifurcations and phase portraits in the parametric space, 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. Some explicit exact solution formulas are acquired for some special cases.     

Kinks and travelling wave solutions for Burgers-like equations

In this work we develop a variety of Burgers-like equations. We show that these derived equations share some of the travelling wave solutions of the Burgers equation, and differ in some other solutions.     

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.     

The pointwise estimates of solutions for a nonlinear convection diffusion reaction equation

This paper studies the time asymptotic behavior of solutions for a nonlinear convection diffusion reaction equation in one dimension.First,the pointwise estimates of solutions are obtained,furthermore,we obtain the optimal L~p,1≤ p ≤ +∞,convergence rate of solutions for small initial data.Then we establish the local existence of solutions,the blow up criterion and the sufficient condition to ensure the nonnegativity of solutions for large initial data.Our approach is based on the detailed analysis of the Green function of the linearized equation and some energy estimates.     

Single and multi-solitary wave solutions to a class of nonlinear evolution equations

In this paper, an effective discrimination algorithm is presented to deal with equations arising from physical problems. The aim of the algorithm is to discriminate and derive the single traveling wave solutions of a large class of nonlinear evolution equations. Many examples are given to illustrate the algorithm. At the same time, some factorization technique are presented to construct the traveling wave solutions of nonlinear evolution equations, such as Camassa-Holm equation, Kolmogorov-Petrovskii-Piskunov equation, and so on. Then a direct constructive method called multi-auxiliary equations expansion method is described to derive the multi-solitary wave solutions of nonlinear evolution equations. Finally, a class of novel multi-solitary wave solutions of the (2+1)-dimensional asymmetric version of the Nizhnik-Novikov-Veselov equation are given by three direct methods. The algorithm proposed in this paper can be steadily applied to some other nonlinear problems.     

Numerical solution of a nonlinear reaction diffusion equation

In this paper, the authors propose a numerical method to compute the solution of a Cauchy problem with blow-up of the solution. The problem is split in two parts: a hyperbolic problem which is solved by using Hopf and Lax formula and a parabolic problem solved by a backward linearized Euler method in time and a finite element method in space. It is proved that the numerical solution blows up in a finite time as the exact solution and the support of the approximation of a self-similar solution remains bounded. The convergence of the scheme is obtained.     

Bifurcation of travelling wave solutions in a nonlinear variant of the RLW equation

By using the method of planar dynamical systems to a nonlinear variant of the regularized long-wave equation (RLW equation in short), the existence of smooth and non-smooth solitary wave (so called peakon and valleyon) and infinite many periodic wave solutions is shown. Under different regions of parametric spaces, various sufficient conditions to guarantee the existence of above solutions are given. The formulas to compute the travelling waves are also educed. We notice that some results in [Wazwaz AM. Analytic study on nonlinear variants of the RLW and the PHI-four equations. Commun Nonlinear Sci Numer Simul, in press, doi:10.1016/j.cnsns.2005.03.001] are incorrect.     

Exact traveling wave solutions and bifurcations in a nonlinear elastic rod equation

The exact parametric representations of the traveling wave solutions for a nonlinear elastic rod equation are considered. By using the method of planar dynamical systems, in different parameter regions, the phase portraits of the corresponding traveling wave system are given. Exact explicit kink wave solutions, periodic wave solutions and some unbounded wave solutions are obtained.     

Bifurcations of exact travelling wave solutions for the generalized R-K-L equation

Using the method of dynamical systems for the the generalized Radhakrishnan, Kundu, Lakshmanan equation, the existence of soliton solutions, uncountably infinite many periodic wave solutions and unbounded wave solution are obtained. Exact explicit parametric representations of the above travelling solutions are given. To guarantee the existence of the above solutions, all parameter conditions are determined.