Symbolic Computation and New Exact Travelling Solutions for the (2+1)-Dimensional Zoomeron Equation

Hua Gao

Department of Applied Mathematics, Yuncheng University, Yuncheng, China.

DOI: 10.4236/ijmnta.2014.32004                

Abstract

In this paper, we present Yan’s sine-cosine method and Wazwaz’s sine-cosine method to solve the (2+1)-dimensional Zoomeron equation. New exact travelling wave solutions are explicitly obtained with the aid of symbolic computation. The study confirms the power of the two schemes.

Keywords

Sine-Cosine Method, (2+1)-Dimensional Zoomeron Equation, Nonlinear Evolution Equations

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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