A Note on Nonclassical Symmetries of a Class of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Compatibility

The nonclassical symmetries of a class of nonlinear partial differential equations obtained by the compatibility method is investigated. We show thenonclassical symmetries obtained in [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 289 (2004) 55, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 311 (2005) 479] are not all the nonclassical symmetries. Based on a new assume on the form of invariant surface condition, all the nonclassical symmetries for a class of nonlinear partial differential equations can be obtained through the compatibility method. The nonlinear Klein-Gordonequation and the Cahn-Hilliard equations all serve as examples showing the compatibility method leads quickly and easily to the determining equations for their all nonclassical symmetries for two equations.     

Nonclassical Symmetries for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations via Compatibility

The determining equations for the nonclassical symmetry reductions of nonlinear partial differential equations with arbitrary order can be obtained by requiring the compatibility between the original equations and the invariant surface conditions. The (2+1)-dimensional shallow water wave equation,
Boussinesq equation, and the dispersive wave equations in shallow water serve as examples illustrating how compatibility leads quickly and easily to the determining equations for their nonclassical symmetries.     

A Note on the Equivalence of Methods to finding Nonclassical Determining Equations

In this note we prove that the method of Bîlã and Niesen to determine nonclassical determining equations is equivalent to that of Nucci’s method with heir-equations and thus in general is equivalent to using an appropriate form of generalised conditional symmetry.     

Nonclassical Symmetries for a Class of Reaction-Diffusion Equations: the Method of Heir-Equations

The nonclassical symmetries method is applied to a class of reaction-diffusion equations with nonlinear source, i.e. u _t =u _xx +cu _x +R(u, x). Several cases are obtained by using suitable solutions of the heir-equations as described in [M.C. Nucci, Nonclassical symmetries as special solutions of heir-equations, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 279 (2003) 168–179].     

A Class of Traveling Wave Solutions to Some Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

For the Noyes-Fields equations, two-dimensional hyperbolic equations of conversation laws, and theBurgers-KdV equation, a class of traveling wave solutions has been obtained by constructing appropriate functiontransformations. The main idea of solving the equations is that nonlinear partial differential equations are changed intosolving algebraic equations. This method has a wide-rangingpracticability.     

On the Behavior of Solutions of a Class of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

The behavior of the steady-state (or the traveling wave) solutions for a class of nonlinear partial differential equations is studied. The nonlinearity in these equations is expressed by the presence of the convective term. It is shown that the steady-state (or the traveling wave) solution may explode at a finite value of the spatial (or the characteristic) variable. This holds whatever the order of the spatial derivative term in these equations. Furthermore, new special solutions of a set of equations in this class are also found.     

Conditional Symmetries and Solutions to a Class of Nonlinear Diffusion-Convection Equations

The present paper discusses a class of nonlinear diffusion-convection equations with source. The method that we use is the conditional symmetry method. It is shown that the equation admits certain conditional symmetries for coefficient functions of the equations. As a consequence, solutions to the resulting equations are obtained.     

Conditional Symmetries and Solutions to a Class of Nonlinear Diffusion-Convection Equations

The present paper discusses a class of nonlinear diffusion-convection equations with source. The method that we use is the conditional symmetry method. It is shown that the equation admits certain conditional symmetries for coefficient functions of the equations. As a consequence, solutions to the resulting equations are obtained.     

Relationship Between Soliton-like Solutions and Soliton Solutions to a Class of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

By using the generally projective Riccati equation method, a series of doubly periodic solutions (Jacobi elliptic function solution) for a class of nonlinear partial differential equations are obtained in a unified way. When the module m→1, these solutions exactly degenerate to the soliton solutions of the equations. Then we reveal the relationship between the soliton-like solutions obtained by other authors and these soliton solutions of the equations.     

An Extension of Mapping Deformation Method and New Exact Solution for Three Coupled Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

In this paper, we extend the mapping deformation method proposed by Lou. It is used to find new exacttravelling wave solutions of nonlinear partial differential equation or coupled nonlinear partial differential equations(PDEs). Based on the idea of the homogeneous balance method, we construct the general mapping relation betweenthe solutions of the PDEs and those of the cubic nonlinear Klein-Gordon (NKG) equation. By using this relation andthe abundant solutions of the cubic NKG equation, many explicit and exact travelling wave solutions of three systemsof coupled PDEs, which contain solitary wave solutions, trigonometric function solutions, Jacobian elliptic functionsolutions, and rational solutions, are obtained.     

Nonclassical Potential Symmetries and New Explicit Solutions of Burgers Equation

A new method is used to determine the nonclassical potential symmetry generators of Burgers equation.Some classes of new explicit solutions, which cannot be obtained by Lie symmetry group of Burgers equation or its integrated equation, are obtained by using these new nonclassical potential symmetry generators.     

Nonclassical Potential Symmetries and New Explicit Solutions of Burgers Equation

A new method is used to determine the nonclassical potential symmetry generators of Burgers equation.Some classes of new explicit solutions, which cannot be obtained by Lie symmetry group of Burgers equation or its integrated equation, are obtained by using these new nonclassical potential symmetry generators.     

A Laplace Decomposition Method for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations with Nonlinear Term of Any Order

A Laplace decomposition algorithm is adopted to investigate numerical solutions of a class of nonlinear partial differential equations with nonlinear term of any order, utt ＋ auxx ＋ bu ＋ cup ＋ du^2p-1 = 0, which contains some important equations of mathematical physics. Three distinct initial conditions are constructed and generalized numerical solutions are thereby obtained, including numerical hyperbolic function solutions and doubly periodic ones. Illustrative figures and comparisons between the numerical and exact solutions with different values of p are used to test the efficiency of the proposed method, which shows good results are azhieved.     

New Exact Solutions for a Class of Nonlinear Coupled Differential Equations

More new exact solutions for a class of nonlinear coupled differential equations are obtained by using a direct and efficient hyperbola function transform method based on the idea of the extended homogeneous balance method.     

Conservation Laws and Exact Solutions for some Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

An effective algorithmic method (Anco, S. C. and Bluman, G. (1996). Journal of Mathematical Physics 37, 2361; Anco, S. C. and Bluman, G. (1997). Physical Review Letters 78, 2869; Anco, S. C. and Bluman, G. (1998). European Journal of Applied Mathematics 9, 254; Anco, S. C. and Bluman, G. (2001). European Journal of Applied Mathematics 13, 547; Anco, S. C. and Bluman, G. (2002). European Journal of Applied Mathematics 13, 567 is used for finding the local conservation laws for some nonlinear partial differential equations. The method does not require the use or existence of a variational principle and reduces the calculation of conservation laws to solving a system of linear determining equations similar to that of finding symmetries. An explicit construction formula is derived which yields a conservation law for each solution of the determining system. Different methods to construct new exact solution classes for the same nonlinear partial differential equations are also presented, which are named hyperbolic function method and the Bäcklund transformations. On the other hand, other methods and transformations are developed to obtain exact solutions for some nonlinear partial differential equations.     

Explicit Exact Solutions for Some Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations with Nonlinear Terms of Any Order

In this paper, by introducing some appropriate transformation and with the help of symbolic computation, we study exact travelling wave solutions for the high-order modified Boussinesq equation, a single nonlinear reaction-diffusion equation and a generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation with nonlinear terms of any order by use of the extended-tanh method. Thus, some new exact travelling-wave solutions, which contain kink-shaped solitons, bell-shaped solitons, periodic solutions, combined formal solitons, rational solutions and singular solitons for these equations, are obtained.     

Bosonized Supersymmetric Sawada–Kotera Equations: Symmetries and Exact Solutions

The Bosonized Supersymmetric Sawada–Kotera(BSSK) system is constructed by applying bosonization method to a Supersymmetric Sawada–Kotera system in this paper. The symmetries on the BSSK equations are researched and the calculation shows that the BSSK equations are invariant under the scaling transformations, the space-time translations and Galilean boosts. The one-parameter invariant subgroups and the corresponding invariant solutions are researched for the BSSK equations. Four types of reduction equations and similarity solutions are proposed. Period Cnoidal wave solutions, dark solitary wave solutions and bright solitary wave solutions of the BSSK equations are demonstrated and some evolution curves of the exact solutions are figured out.     

Nonlocal Symmetries to Systems of Nonlinear Diffusion Equations

In this paper, we study potential symmetries to certain systems of nonlinear diffusion equations. Thosesystems have physical applications in soil science, mathematical biology, and invariant curve flows in R^3. Lie point symmetries of the potential system, which cannot be projected to vector fields of the given dependent and independent variables, yield potential symmetries. The class of the system that admits potential symmetries is expanded.