Exact Traveling Wave Solutions to Phi-4 Equation and Joseph-Egri (TRLW) Equation and Calogro-Degasperis (CD) Equation by Modified (G'/G2)-Expansion Method ()
1. Introduction
The world around us is inherently nonlinear. A large part of equations is nonlinear partial differential equations (NPDEs), which can be utilized to describe many important and sophisticated phenomena in physics, mathematical physics, engineering, and other various scientific fields. It is not easy to solve these equations, but exploration of their exact solutions becomes quite prominent due to the efficiency and reliability of symbolic software packages such as Maple or Mathematica.
In the past decades, authors constructed and developed various powerful and efficient methods for finding exact solutions of (NPDEs) with aid of symbolic software such as, the tanh-function method [1] [2] , sine-cosine function method [3] [4] , Hirota bilinear method [5] [6] , homogeneous balance method [7] [8] , the exp-function method [9] [10] , the sub-equation method, F-expansion method [11] [12] , (1/G')-expansion method [13] , (G'/G, 1/G)-expansion method [14] [15] , (G'/G)-expansion method [16] [17] , and so on.
Recently, the (G'/G2)-expansion method [18] [19] have received a lot of attention for number of authors who work on the method to construct exact solutions of (NPDEs) in applied sciences and engineering. The modified (G'/G2)-expansion method [20] [21] [22] has been used to find solutions for certain mathematical problems.
This work is summarized as follows. In Section 2, the description of the modified (G'/G2)-expansion method is given. In Section 3, we apply the method to Phi-4 equation [23] , Joseph-Egri (TRLW) equation [24] [25] , and Calogro-Degasperis (CD) equation [26] to obtain some of their exact traveling wave solutions. Finally, conclusions and some remarks have been presented.
2. Description of the Method
Consider a general nonlinear partial differential equation (PDE) in the form:
(1)
where
is an unknown function, P is a polynomial in
and its partial derivatives.
• First step
Reduction of Equation (1) to a nonlinear ordinary differential equation by introducing the traveling wave variable
, where t is a real positive number, k is the wave number and V is the velocity of travelling wave, we have:
(2)
where
and Q is a polynomial of U and it's derivatives with respect to
.
• Second step
Assume that the traveling wave solution of Equation (2) can be expressed by a polynomial in
as follows:
(3)
where
and
are constants which determined later and
satisfies the Riccati equation:
(4)
,
and
are arbitrary constants.
• Third step
Calculate the value of the positive integer N by balancing the highest order nonlinear terms with the highest order derivatives appearing in Equation (2).
• Fourth step
The general solution of Equation (4), has five possible solutions as follows:
(5)
where A, B are constants and
.
• Fifth step
Using Equation (4) to calculate the derivatives then substituting them and
Equation (3) into Equation (2) then collecting all terms with same power of
and solving the system of algebraic equations by computational software such as Maple. Finally use Equation (5) with the results obtained to derive the exact solutions of Equation (1).
3. Applications
In this section, we will find exact traveling wave solutions to Phi-4 equation, Joseph-Egri (TRLW) equation and Calogro-Degasperis (CD) equation by applying the modified (G'/G2)-expansion method.
3.1. First Application
Consider the Phi-4 equation in the form:
(6)
which has a significant role in the study on the nuclear and particle physics, where m and c are real valued constants. Using the transformation
where
, Equation (6) changed into an ODE equation of the form:
(7)
Balancing the highest order derivative term
and nonlinear term
in Equation (7), we obtain
. The solution of Equation (7) will be in the following form:
(8)
and
are constants to be determined later. The derivatives
and
compute as follows:
(9)
(10)
Now, substituting Equation (8) and Equation (10) in Equation (7) we will get a polynomial of degree three in
, since the polynomial is equal to zero then each of its coefficients are equal to zero, as follows:
(11)
Solving the above algebraic equations with the assistance of Maple, we obtain the following results:
Result 1.
(12)
(13)
Result 2.
(14)
(15)
where
. Substituting (12) and (13) into the solution form (8) and using (5), we get the following solutions:
where
,
where
. Now, substituting (14) and (15) into the solution form (8) and using (5), we get the following solutions:
where
,
where
. Finally, using the fact that
, there are two indices i and j, where i represents the number of solutions of the ODE while j represents the number of solutions of the PDE (As an example of one of the above solutions is shown in Figure 1).
3.2. Second Application
Consider the Joseph-Egri (TRLW) equation in the form:
(16)
which an important model to describe the spreading wave, where
is a nonzero constant. Using the transformation
where
, Equation (16) changed into an ODE equation of the form:
(17)
Figure 1. The solution
of Phi-4 equation with
,
,
,
,
,
and
.
Balancing the highest order derivative term
and nonlinear term
in Equation (17), we obtain
. The solution of Equation (17) will be in the following form:
(18)
and
are constants to be determined later. Now, substituting Equation (18) and its derivatives in Equation (17) we will get a polynomial of
degree five in
, since the polynomial is equal to zero then each of its coefficients are equal to zero, as follows:
Solving the above algebraic equations with the assistance of Maple, we obtain the following results:
Result 1.
(19)
Result 2.
(20)
where
. Substituting (19) into the solution form (18) and using (5), we get the following solutions:
Now, substituting (20) into the solution form (18) and using (5), we get the following solutions:
Finally, using the fact that
(As an example of one of the above solutions is shown in Figure 2).
Figure 2. The solution
of TRLW equation with
,
,
,
and
.
3.3. Third Application
Consider the Calogro-Degasperis (CD) equation in the form:
(21)
which arises in fluid mechanics, solid state physics and plasma physics. Using the transformation
where
, Equation (21) changed into an ODE equation of the form:
(22)
Balancing the highest order derivative term
and nonlinear term
in Equation (22), we obtain
. The solution of Equation (22) will be in the following form:
(23)
and
are constants to be determined later. Now, substituting Equation (23) and its derivatives in Equation (22) we will get a polynomial of degree five
in
, since the polynomial is equal to zero then each of its coefficients are equal to zero, as follows:
(24)
Solving the above algebraic equations with the assistance of Maple, we obtain the following results:
Result 1.
(25)
Result 2.
(26)
Substituting (25) into the solution form (23) and using (5), we get the following solutions:
Now, substituting (26) into the solution form (23) and using (5), we get the following solutions:
Finally, using the fact that
, where
(As an example of one of the above solutions is shown in Figure 3).
Figure 3. The solution
of CD equation with
,
,
, and
.
4. Conclusion and Future Work
A modified (G'/G2)-expansion method has been proposed in this paper to obtain exact traveling wave solutions to the Phi-4 equation, the Joseph-Egri (TRLW) equation, and the Calogro-Degasperis (CD) equation. All solutions obtained to these equations have been verified by substitution into the original equation. With the help of the symbolic computation software Maple, this method is easy to implement and powerful. For future work, we will try to modify the auxiliary equation in order to get different new solutions.