Auxiliary equation method for the mKdV equation with variable coefficients

By using solutions of an ordinary differential equation, an auxiliary equation method is described to seek exact solutions of nonlinear evolution equations with variable coefficients. Being concise and straightforward, this method is applied to the mKdV equation with variable coefficients. As a result, new explicit solutions including solitary wave solutions and trigonometric function solutions are obtained with the aid of symbolic computation.     

New Jacobi elliptic functions solutions for the variable-coefficient mKdV equation

In this work, a new generalized Jacobi elliptic functions expansion method based upon four new Jacobi elliptic functions is described and abundant new Jacobi-like elliptic functions solutions for the variable-coefficient mKdV equation are obtained by using this method, some of these solutions are degenerated to solitary-like solutions and triangular-like functions solutions in the limit cases when the modulus of the Jacobi elliptic functions m→1 or 0, which shows that the new method can be also used to solve other nonlinear partial differential equations in mathematical physics.     

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.     

Exp-function method for Riccati equation and new exact solutions with two arbitrary functions of (2 + 1)-dimensional Konopelchenko-Dubrovsky equations

In this paper, new exact solutions with two arbitrary functions of the (2 + 1)-dimensional Konopelchenko-Dubrovsky equations are obtained by means of the Riccati equation and its generalized solitary wave solutions constructed by the Exp-function method. It is shown that the Exp-function method provides us with a straightforward and important mathematical tool for solving nonlinear evolution equations in mathematical physics.     

Sub-ODE method and soliton solutions for the variable-coefficient mKdV equation

In this work, an auxiliary equation is used for an analytic study on the time-variable coefficient modified Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV) equation. Five sets of new exact soliton-like solutions are obtained. The results show that the pulse parameters are time-dependent variable coefficients. Moreover, the basic conditions for the formation of derived solutions are presented.     

A series of exact solutions for (2 + 1)-dimensional Wick-type stochastic generalized Broer-Kaup system via a modified variable-coefficient projective Riccati equation mapping method

A modified variable-coefficient projective Riccati equation mapping method is applied to (2 + 1)-dimensional Wick-type stochastic generalized Broer-Kaup system. With the help of Hermit transformation, we obtain a series of new exact stochastic solutions to the stochastic Broer-Kaup system in the white noise environment.     

Application of rational expansion method for stochastic differential equations

By means of the Hermite transformation, a new general ansätz and the symbolic computation system Maple, we apply the Riccati equation rational expansion method [24] to uniformly construct a series of stochastic non-traveling wave solutions for stochastic differential equations. To illustrate the effectiveness of our method, we take the stochastic mKdV equation as an example, and successfully construct some new and more general solutions. The method can also be applied to solve other nonlinear stochastic differential equation or equations.     

The King-Werner method for solving nonsymmetric algebraic Riccati equation

For the nonsymmetric algebraic Riccati equation arising from transport theory, we concern about solving its minimal positive solution. In [1], Lu transferred the equation into a vector form and pointed out that the minimal positive solution of the matrix equation could be obtained via computing that of the vector equation. In this paper, we use the King-Werner method to solve the minimal positive solution of the vector equation and give the convergence and error analysis of the method. Numerical tests show that the King-Werner method is feasible to determine the minimal positive solution of the vector equation.     

Planar nonautonomous polynomial equations: The Riccati equation

We give a few sufficient conditions for the existence of two periodic solutions of the Riccati ordinary differential equation in the plane. We give also examples of the equation without periodic solutions.     

Nonlinear feedback controllers and compensators: a state-dependent Riccati equation approach

State-dependent Riccati equation (SDRE) techniques are rapidly emerging as general design and synthesis methods of nonlinear feedback controllers and estimators for a broad class of nonlinear regulator problems. In essence, the SDRE approach involves mimicking standard linear quadratic regulator (LQR) formulation for linear systems. In particular, the technique consists of using direct parameterization to bring the nonlinear system to a linear structure having state-dependent coefficient matrices. Theoretical advances have been made regarding the nonlinear regulator problem and the asymptotic stability properties of the system with full state feedback. However, there have not been any attempts at the theory regarding the asymptotic convergence of the estimator and the compensated system. This paper addresses these two issues as well as discussing numerical methods for approximating the solution to the SDRE. The Taylor series numerical methods works only for a certain class of systems, namely with constant control coefficient matrices, and only in small regions. The interpolation numerical method can be applied globally to a much larger class of systems. Examples will be provided to illustrate the effectiveness and potential of the SDRE technique for the design of nonlinear compensator-based feedback controllers.     

Lie group classifications and exact solutions for two variable-coefficient equations

In this paper, the Lie symmetry analysis and group classifications are performed for two variable-coefficient equations, the hanging chain equation and the bond pricing equation. The symmetries for the two equations are obtained, the exact explicit solutions generated from the similarity reductions are presented. Moreover, the exact analytic solutions are considered by the power series method.     

Exp-function method for traveling wave solutions of nonlinear evolution equations

In this paper, we apply the exp-function method to construct generalized solitary and periodic solutions of nonlinear evolution equations. The proposed technique is tested on the modified Zakharov-Kuznetsov (ZK) and Zakharov-Kuznetsov-Modified-Equal-Width (ZK-MEW) equations. These equations play a very important role in mathematical physics and engineering sciences. The suggested algorithm is quite efficient and is practically well suited for use in these problems. Numerical results clearly indicate the reliability and efficiency of the proposed exp-function method.     

New explicit traveling wave solutions for three nonlinear evolution equations

In this paper, using the extended tanh-function method, new explicit traveling wave solutions including rational solutions for three nonlinear evolution equations are obtained with the aid of Mathematica.     

广义Riccati展开法及其在foam drainage方程中的应用

应用双曲函数法结合Riccati方程,求得foam drainage方程的精确解.通过这种方法可以得到此方程的新的孤立波解与周期解,并且此方法可以用来求解其它许多的非线性演化方程.     

The extended tanh method for solving systems of nonlinear wave equations

The extended tanh method with a computerized symbolic computation is used for constructing the traveling wave solutions of coupled nonlinear equations arising in physics. The obtained solutions include solitons, kinks and plane periodic solutions. The applied method will be used to solve the generalized coupled Hirota Satsuma KdV equation.     

A note on the modified simple equation method applied to Sharma-Tasso-Olver equation

Jawad et al. have applied the modified simple equation method to find the exact solutions of the nonlinear Fitzhugh-Naguma equation and the nonlinear Sharma-Tasso-Olver equation. The analysis of the Sharma-Tasso-Olver equation obtained by Jawad et al. is based on variant of the modified simple equation method. In this paper, we provide its direct application and obtain new 1- soliton solutions.     

Block Arnoldi-based methods for large scale discrete-time algebraic Riccati equations

In the present paper, we present block Arnoldi-based methods for the computation of low rank approximate solutions of large discrete-time algebraic Riccati equations (DARE). The proposed methods are projection methods onto block or extended block Krylov subspaces. We give new upper bounds for the norm of the error obtained by applying these block Arnoldi-based processes. We also introduce the Newton method combined with the block Arnoldi algorithm and present some numerical experiments with comparisons between these methods.     

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.     

Analytic N-solitary-wave solution of a variable-coefficient Gardner equation from fluid dynamics and plasma physics

In this paper, the investigation is focused on a variable-coefficient Gardner equation with quadric and cubic nonlinearities from fluid dynamics and plasma physics. Using the Hirota bilinear method, the one-, two- and three-solitary-wave solutions of the variable-coefficient Gardner equation are derived, and the analytic N-solitary-wave solution is presented for the first time in this paper with the aid of symbolic computation. Figures are plotted to illustrate the solutions obtained in this paper.     

Wavelet operational matrix method for solving the Riccati differential equation

A Haar wavelet operational matrix method (HWOMM) was derived to solve the Riccati differential equations. As a result, the computation of the nonlinear term was simplified by using the Block pulse function to expand the Haar wavelet one. The proposed method can be used to solve not only the classical Riccati differential equations but also the fractional ones. The capability and the simplicity of the proposed method was demonstrated by some examples and comparison with other methods.