Zufiria’s higher-order Boussinesq type equations are studied by transforming them into solvable ordinary differential equations. Various families of their travelling wave solutions are generated, which include periodic wave, solitary wave, periodic-like wave, solitonlike wave, Jacobi elliptic function periodic wave, combined non-degenerative Jacobi elliptic function-like wave, Weierstrass ellip...

A new fractional subequation method is proposed for finding exact solutions for fractional partial differential equations (FPDEs). The fractional derivative is defined in the sense ofmodified Riemann-Liouville derivative. As applications, abundant exact solutions including solitary wave solutions as well as periodic wave solutions for the space-time fractional generalized Hirota-Satsuma coupled...

We consider a two-dimensional generalization of the Benjamin-Ono equation and prove that it admits solitary-wave solutions that are analytic functions. We find the optimal decay rate at infinity of these solitary waves.

The homotopy analysis method is used to find a family of solitary smooth hump solutions of the Camassa–Holm equation. This approximate solution, which is obtained as a series of exponentials, agrees well with the known exact solution. This paper complements the work of Wu & Liao [Wu W, Liao S. Solving solitary waves with discontinuity by means of the homotopy analysis method. Chaos, Solitons & ...

Many physical phenomena are modeled with nonlinear partial differential equations that possess solitary wave solutions called solitons. Solitons exhibit Gaussian forms and in turn engender normal probability distributions. Moreover, solitons fluctuate randomly during evolution. These features intricately relate the solitons to wavelets, statistical distributions and random processes. In the pre...

Considered here is a model equation put forward by Benjamin that governs approximately the evolution of waves on the interface of a two-uid system in which surface tension eeects cannot be ignored. Our principal focus is the traveling-wave solutions called solitary waves, and three aspects will be investigated. A constructive proof of the existence of these waves together with a proof of their ...

Long's equation describes stationary flows to all orders of nonlinearity and dispersion. Dissipation is neglected. In this paper, Long's equation is used to attempt to model the propagation of a solibore -a train of internal waves in shallow water at the deepening phase of the internal tide. 1. The Solibore Phenomenon The internal tide in shallow water often has a sawtooth shape rather than a s...

The KdV equation arises in the framework of the Boussinesq scaling as a model equation for waves at the surface of an inviscid fluid. Encoded in the KdV model are relations that may be used to reconstruct the velocity field in the fluid below a given surface wave. In this paper, velocity fields associated to exact solutions of the KdV equation are found, and particle trajectories are computed n...

We study the motion of solitary-wave solutions of a family of focusing generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equations with a confining, slowly varying external potential, V (x). A Lyapunov-Schmidt decomposition of the solution combined with energy estimates allows us to control the motion of the solitary wave over a long, but finite, time interval. We show that the center of mass of the solitary w...

The long-time asymptotics is analyzed for finite energy solutions of the 1D discrete Schrödinger equation coupled to a nonlinear oscillator. The coupled system is invariant with respect to the phase rotation group U(1). For initial states close to a solitary wave, the solution converges to a sum of another solitary wave and dispersive wave which is a solution to the free Schrödinger equation. T...