New double periodic and multiple soliton solutions of the generalized (2 + 1)-dimensional Boussinesq equation
Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 20 (2004) 765–769 www.elsevier.com/locate/chaos
New double periodic and multiple soliton solutions of the generalized (2...
Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 20 (2004) 765–769 www.elsevier.com/locate/chaos
New double periodic and multiple soliton solutions of the generalized (2 + 1)-dimensional Boussinesq equation Chen Huai-Tang a
a,b,*
, Zhang Hong-Qing
a
Department of Applied Mathematics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China b Department of Mathematics, Linyi Teachers University, Linyi 276005, China Accepted 11 August 2003 Communicated by Prof. M. Wadati
Abstract A new generalized Jacobi elliptic function method is used for constructing exact travelling wave solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations in a unified way. The main idea of this method is to take full advantage of the elliptic equation which has more new solutions. More new double periodic and multiple soliton solutions are obtained for the generalized (2 + 1)-dimensional Boussinesq equation. This method can be applied to many other equations. Ó 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
1. Introduction In recent years, directly searching for exact solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) has become increasingly attractive partly due to the availability of computer symbolic systems like Maple or Mathematica, which allow us to perform complicated and tedious algebraic calculations as well as help us to find exact solutions of PDEs [1– 5]. A number of methods have been presented, such as inverse scattering theory [6–8], Hirota’s bilinear method [9–11], the truncated Painleve expansion [12], homogeneous balance method [13–17], the hyperbolic tangent function series method [18], the sine–cosine method [19], the Jacobi elliptic function expansion method [20–23] and other methods [24,25]. The purpose of this paper is to present a generalized Jacobi elliptic function method and to solve the generalized (2 + 1)-dimensional Boussinesq equation.
2. Our method based on the elliptic equation The main idea of our method is to take full advantage of the elliptic equation that Jacobi elliptic functions satisfy and use its solutions to obtain new doubly periodic and multiple soliton solutions of the generalized (2 + 1)-dimensional Boussinesq equation. The desired elliptic equation reads /02 ¼ A þ B/2 þ C/4 ;
ð1Þ
where /0 :¼ d/=dn, n ¼ nðx; y; z; tÞ, and A, B, C are constants.
* Corresponding author. Address: Department of Applied Mathematics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China. Tel.: +86-411-4701381. E-mail address: [email protected] (C. Huai-Tang).
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