In this paper, the well-known He’s variational iteration method (VIM) is used to construct solitary wave solutions for the generalized Zakharov equation (GZE). The chosen initial solution (trial function) can be in soliton form with some unknown parameters, which can be determined in the solution procedure. c © 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

We prove that the collision of two solitary waves of the BBM equation is inelastic but almost elastic in the case where one solitary wave is small in the energy space. We show precise estimates of the nonzero residue due to the collision. Moreover, we give a precise description of the collision phenomenon (change of size of the solitary waves and shifts in their trajectories). To prove these re...

Solitary wave solutions to the Broer-Kaup equations and approximate long water wave equations are considered challenging by using the rst integral method.The exact solutions obtained during the present investigation are new. This method can be applied to nonintegrable equations as well as to integrable ones.

This paper considers a progressive solitary wave of permanent form in an ideal fluid of constant depth and explores Davies’ approximation [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A, 208 (1951), pp. 475– 486] with high-order corrections to Levi-Civita’s surface condition for the logarithmic hodograph variable. Using a complex plane that was originally introduced by Packham [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A, 213 (1952), pp. 23...

Although the modified simple equation (MSE) method effectively provides exact traveling wave solutions to nonlinear evolution equations (NLEEs) in the field of engineering and mathematical physics, it has some limitations. When the balance number is greater than one, usually the method does not give any solution. In this article, we have exposed a process how to implement the MSE method to solv...

In this work, we construct the lumped Galerkin approach based on cubic B-splines to obtain the numerical solution of the generalized regularized long wave equation. Applying the von Neumann approximation, it is shown that the linearized algorithm is unconditionally stable. The presented method is implemented to three test problems including single solitary wave, interaction of two solitary wave...

A new class of solitary waves arises in the solution of nonlinear wave equations with constant impedance and no dispersive terms. These solitary waves depend on a balance between nonlinearity and a dispersion-like effect due to spatial variation in the sound speed of the medium. A high-order homogenized model confirms this effective dispersive behavior, and its solutions agree well with those o...

This article presents a formulation of the time-fractional generalized Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation using the Euler-Lagrange variational technique in the Riemann-Liouville derivative sense. It finds an approximate solitary wave solution, and shows that He’s variational iteration method is an efficient technique in finding the solution.

Roughly speaking a solitary wave is a solution of a field equation whose energy travels as a localised packet and which preserves this localisation in time. A soliton is a solitary wave which exhibits some strong form of stability so that it has a particle-like behaviour. In this paper we show a new mechanism which might produce solitary waves and solitons for a large class of equations, such a...

We consider asymptotic stability of a small solitary wave to supercritical 1-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equations iut + uxx = V u ± |u| u for (x, t) ∈ R × R, in the energy class. This problem was studied by Gustafson-Nakanishi-Tsai [16] in the 3-dimensional case using the endpoint Strichartz estimate. To prove asymptotic stability of solitary waves, we need to show that a dispersive part...