Application of Hyperbola Function Method to the Family of Third Order Korteweg-de Vries Equations ()
1. Introduction
Nonlinear partial differential equations (NLPDEs) have a significant role in several scientific and engineering fields. Since the discovery of soliton in 1965 by Zabusky and Kruskal [1] , many NLPDEs have been derived and extensively applied in different branches of physics and applied mathematics. These equations appear in con- densed matter, solid state physics, fluid mechanics, chemical kinetics, plasma physics, nonlinear optics, propagation of fluxions in Josephson junctions, theory of turbulence, ocean dynamics, biophysics and star formation and many others. In order to understand the different nonlinear phenomena, various methods for obtaining exact solutions to NLPDEs have been proposed. Among these are the inverse scattering method [2] , Hirota’s method [3] , Backlund transformation [4] , F-expansion method [5] , homogeneous balance method [6] , tanh-function method [7] , Jacobi elliptic function method [8] , and many others.
In this project, we consider the nonlinear family of third order Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equations in [9] of the form
(1)
where is a function of space x and time t. The nonlinear term takes the forms
(2)
For, Equation (1) becomes the standard KdV equation. When, Equation (1) is called the modified KdV (mKdV) equation [10] . For, Equation (1) is called the generalized KdV (gKdV) equation [11] . If , then Equation (1) is called potential KdV equation. When, we get the generalized KdV equation with two power nonlinearities [12] . The KdV equation is used to model the disturbance of the surface of shallow water in the presence of solitary waves. It is a generic model for the study of weakly nonlinear long waves, incorporating leading order nonlinearity and dispersion [13] . The mKdV equation appears in electric circuits and multi-component plasmas [14] . The generalized KdV equation serves as an approximate model for the description of week dispersive effects on the propagation of nonlinear waves characteristic direction [14] . The nonlinear family of third order Korteweg-de Vries equation and other related equations were solved by many methods. For single soliton solutions, the tanh-function method [15] , the tanh- coth method [16] , the modified tanh-coth method [17] -[20] , the sine-cosine method [21] , the inverse scattering method [22] , were used. For the concept of multiple solitons solutions, the Hirota bilinear formalism [23] and a simplified version of this method [24] were used. Our intention in this work is to find new solitary-wave solutions for the nonlinear family of third order Korteeweg-de Vries. Since there is no unified method that can be used to handle all types of nonlinear problems, we will use a hyperbola function method [25] .
2. Hyperbola Function Method
We describe this method, for a given nonlinear partial differential equation, say, in two variables,
(3)
Let then Equation (3) reduces to a nonlinear ordinary differential equation (ODE)
(4)
We suppose that the solution of the ODE (4) is of the form
(5)
where the coefficients are constants to be determined and satisfies a nonlinear ordinary differential equation
(6)
Note that, in (6) implies
(7)
and gives
(8)
The parameter m will be found by balancing the highest-order nonlinear terms with the highest-order partial derivative term in the given equation and then give the formal solution. Substituting the formal solution (5) and transformation (6) into the ordinary differential equation (4) and the change it into hyperbolic polynomial iden- tities for the intermediate variable. Collect all terms with the same power in and setting
the coefficients of the each order of , or
to zero, we obtain a set of nonlinear algebraic equations for. With the aid of the computer program Maple we can solve the set of nonlinear algebraic equations and obtain all the constants. Finally we obtain the traveling wave solutions of the given nonlinear differential equation.
2.1. Applications of the Hyperbola Function Method
2.1.1. The KdV Equation
(9)
Here we choose in (1). Substituting, into Equation (9) and integrating once yields
(10)
Balancing the order of the nonlinear term with the highest derivative gives that gives. Thus, the solution of (10) has the form
(11)
Substituting (11) in (10) and using, collecting the coefficients of each power of
setting each coefficient to zero, and solving the resulting system obtain the following sets of solutions
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For using (8), (11) and the above sets of solutions we get
For
are new solutions.
2.1.2. The mKdV Equation
(12)
Here we choose in (1). Substituting into Equation (12) and in- tegrating once yields
(13)
Balancing the order of the nonlinear term with the highest derivative gives that gives Thus, the solution of (13) has the form
(14)
Substituting (14) in (13) and using, collecting the coefficients of each power of
setting each coefficient to zero, and solving the resulting system obtain the following sets of solutions
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For using (8), (14) and the above sets of solutions we get
For
For
are new solutions.
2.1.3. The pKdV Equation
(15)
Here we choose in (1). Substituting into Equation (15) we get
(16)
Balancing the order of the nonlinear term with the highest derivative gives that gives Thus, the solution of (16) has the form
(17)
Substituting (17) in (16) and using, collecting the coefficients of each power of
setting each coefficient to zero, and solving the resulting system obtain the following sets of solutions
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For using (8), (17) and the above sets of solutions we get
For
and are new solutions.
2.1.4. The gKdV Equation
(18)
Here we choose in (1). Substituting into Equation (18) and integrating once yields
(19)
Balancing the order of the nonlinear term with the highest derivative gives that
gives m should be integer, then we use the transformation
(20)
Substituting (20) in (19) we get
(21)
Balancing the order of with gives that gives Thus, the solution of (21) has the form
(22)
Substituting (22) in (21) and using, collecting the coefficients of each power of
setting each coefficient to zero, and solving the resulting system obtain the following sets of solutions
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For using (7), (22) and the above sets of solutions we get
For
and are new solutions.
3. Conclusion
In this article, the hyperbola function method has been successfully implemented to find new traveling wave solutions for the nonlinear family of third order Korteweg-de Vries. The results show that this method is a powerful Mathematical tool for obtaining exact solutions for the nonlinear family of third KdV. It is also a promising method to solve other nonlinear partial differential equations.
Acknowledgements
This project was founded by the Deanship of Scientific Research (DSR), King Abdualaziz University, Jeddah, under grant No. (429/091-3). The authors, therefore, acknowledge with thanks DSR technical and financial support.