Explicit traveling wave solutions to nonlinear evolution equations

Abstract

First of all, some technical tools are developed. Then the author studies explicit traveling wave solutions to nonlinear dispersive wave equations, nonlinear dissipative dispersive wave equations, nonlinear convection equations, nonlinear reaction diffusion equations and nonlinear hyperbolic equations, respectively.

Keywords

Explicit traveling wave solutions / Nonlinear partial differential equations / Reduction of order

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