Abstract

By using Frobenius’ idea together with integral bifurcation method, we study a third order nonlinear equation of generalization form of the modified KdV equation, which is an important water wave model. Some exact traveling wave solutions such as smooth solitary wave solutions, nonsmooth peakon solutions, kink and antikink wave solutions, periodic wave solutions of Jacobian elliptic function type, and rational function solution are obtained. And we show their profiles and discuss their dynamic properties aim at some typical solutions. Though the types of these solutions obtained in this work are not new and they are familiar types, they did not appear in any existing literatures because the equation + + = is very complex. Particularly, compared with the cited references, all results obtained in this paper are new.

1. Introduction

It has come to light that many problems in nonlinear science associated with mechanical, structural, aeronautical, oceanic, electrical, and control systems can be summarized as solving nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) which arise from important models with mathematical and physical significances. Finding their exact solutions has extensive applications in many scientific fields such as hydrodynamics, condensed matter physics, solid-state physics, nonlinear optics, neurodynamics, crystal dislocation, model of meteorology, water wave model of oceanography, and fibre-optic communication. The research methods for solving nonlinear PDEs deal with the inverse scattering transformation [1, 2], the Darboux transformation [35], the Bäcklund transformation [58], the bilinear method and multilinear method [9, 10], the classical and nonclassical Lie group approaches [11, 12], the Clarkson-Kruskal direct method [1315], the mixing exponential method [16], the geometrical method [17, 18], the truncated Painlev expansion [19, 20], the function expansion method (including tanh expansion method [21, 22], sine-cosine expansion method [23, 24], exp-function method [25], and multiple exp-function method [26]), the bifurcation theory of planar dynamical system [27, 28], the F-expansion type method [29, 30], method [31, 32], and the integral bifurcation method [3336]. Among these available methods for solving nonlinear PDEs, some of them employed Frobenius’ idea directly or indirectly. Frobenius’ idea is aso called Frobenius’ integrable decompositions [37]; it can reduce a partial differential equation (PDE) to an ordinary differential equation (ODE) under investigation for solution. Indeed, the F-expansion type methods indirectly employed Frobenius’ idea; crucial points of this method are to choose integrable ODE to start investigation for solution. In fact, the tanh function method and method are special cases of such an idea or general Frobenius’ idea. Direct Frobenius’ idea was also used to establish the transformed rational function method [38] and to solve the KPP equation [39].

In this paper, we will employ Frobenius’ idea together with integral bifurcation method to investigate exact traveling wave solutions of the following integrable generalization of the modified KdV equation: where , and are constants and . The model (1) comes from the physical and asymptotic considerations via the methodology introduced by Fokas [40] in 1995; it can be regarded as a water wave model to describe the motion of water wave. It is worth to point out that the special case of (1), is also an important physical model. The above two equations were studied by many authors. Equation (2) was introduced by Fuchssteiner and Fokas in their previous works [41, 42] in 1981. The Lax pairs of (2) were given by Fokas in [40]. New Lax pairs and Darboux transformation of (2) were introduced by Yang and Rui in [43] recently. In [44], by using the bifurcation theory of dynamical system, the existence conditions of different kinds of traveling wave solutions of (2) were presented by Bi. In [45], by using the same method, Li and Zhang studied (1), the existence of solitary wave, kink and antikink wave solutions, uncountably infinite many smooth, and nonsmooth periodic wave solutions were discussed. However, exact travelling wave solutions of (1) were not obtained in [45] though the authors obtained some results of numerical simulation for smooth and nonsmooth periodic wave solutions in this work. Moreover, the investigations on exact solutions of (1) are few in the existing literatures because (1) is more complex than (2). Therefore, in this paper, employing Frobenius’ idea together with integral bifurcation method, we will investigate different kinds of exact traveling wave solutions of (1).

The rest of this paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, by using Frobenius’ idea, we will derive ordinary differential equation (ODE) which is equivalent to (1). In Section 3, by using the integral bifurcation method combined with factoring technique, we will investigate different kinds of exact traveling wave solutions of (1) and discuss their dynamic properties when the integral constants satisfy different conditions. In Section 4, we will discuss different kinds of exact traveling wave solutions of (1) under the special case of the parameter .

2. Direct Application of Frobenius’ Idea on Reducing the PDE (1) to an Integrable ODE

Frobenius’ idea is about changing a partial differential equation (PDE) into an ordinary differential equation (ODE) and then using integrable decomposition method to investigate its exact solutions. Thus, in this section, we first employ the direct Frobenius’ idea to change (1) into an integrable ordinary differential equation; see the following discussions.

Making a traveling wave transformation with , (1) can be reduced to the following ordinary differential equation (ODE): where is wave velocity which moves along the direction of -axis and . Equation (3) can be rewritten as Integrating (4) once, we obtain where is an integral constant. Employing direct Frobenius’ idea, we need not change (5) into a 2-dimensional planar system as the method in [3336]. we can directly integrate (5) again; see the following calculus.

Multiplying to the both sides of (5) yields Integrating (6) once, we obtain where is another arbitrary integral constant. When , (7) can be rewritten as

3. Different Kinds of Exact Traveling Wave Solutions of (1)

In this section, by using the integral bifurcation method combined with factoring technique as in [36], we will investigate different kinds of exact traveling wave solutions of (1) and discuss their dynamic properties via (7) and (8).

3.1. Hyperbolic Function Solutions and Periodic Wave Solutions of (1) as the Two Integral Constants and

When and + + + , , (8) can be decomposed in the following form: where the coefficients , and are defined by the following expressions: Thus (9) can be reduced to the following two ordinary differential equations: or where the coefficients , and are given by (10).

Solving (11) under the conditions and , we obtain two hyperbolic function solutions of (1) as follows:

Solving (11) under the conditions and , we obtain two periodic wave solutions of (1) as follows:

Similarly, solving (12) under the conditions and , we obtain two hyperbolic function solutions of (1) as follows:

Solving (12) under the conditions and , we obtain two periodic wave solutions of (1) as follows:

3.2. Hyperbolic Function Solutions and Periodic Wave Solutions of (1) as the Two Integral Constants and

When and , , (8) can be decomposed in the following form: Equation (17) can be reduced to the following two ordinary differential equations: or Solving (18), we obtain two hyperbolic function solutions and two periodic wave solutions of (1) as follows: where the , and are defined by

Similarly solving (19), we also obtain two hyperbolic function solutions and two periodic wave solutions of (1) as follows: where the , and are defined by

3.3. Hyperbolic Function Solutions and Periodic Wave Solutions of (1) as the Two Integral Constants and

When and , , , (8) can be decomposed in the following form: Similarly, solving (26) we obtain four hyperbolic function solutions and four periodic wave solutions of (1) as follows: where the , and are defined bywhere .

3.4. Hyperbolic Function Solutions, Periodic Wave Solutions, and Rational Function Solution of (1) as the Two Integral Constants

When , and , , (8) can be decomposed in the following form: Solving (32) we obtain four hyperbolic function solutions and four periodic wave solutions of (1) as follows: where .

When , and , , (8) can be decomposed in the following form: where , .

Solving (37) we obtain two hyperbolic function solutions and two periodic wave solutions of (1) as follows: where and have been given above.

When and , , (8) can be decomposed in the following form: Solving (42), we obtain a hyperbolic function solution, a periodic wave solution, and a rational function solution as follows: where and , have been given above.

All the above exact solutions which were obtained by us are smooth travelling wave solutions including smooth periodic wave solutions and smooth hyperbolic function solutions. In order to show the dynamical profiles of periodic wave solutions, as examples, we plot the graphs of solutions (14) and (38) for , which are shown in Figures 1(a) and 1(b).

3.5. Peakon Solutions under Some Special Parametric Condition

The expression in the right side of (8) cannot be reduced to a form of by using the factoring technique because this equation contains the terms + . Thus, the peakon solutions of (1) such as Cammasa-Holm’s form cannot be obtained by direct integral method together with factoring technique as in [36]. However, the research works given by Li et al. in [45] show that the peakon solutions of (1) exist though they did not obtain exact peakon solutions of this equation. Indeed, the existence of peakon solution of (1) is proved by Li via analysis of phase portraits in this paper. We notice that the terms and are kindred terms when . Thus we assume that (1) has peakon solutions of the form or .

When and , we suppose that (8) has a peakon solution as the following form: where the parameters , and can be determined further in the below discussions. We define when ; particularly (constant) when , and obviously is a constant solution which satisfies (1).

When , substituting (46) (i.e. ) into (8) we obtain where coefficients , and satisfy Let the coefficients of every terms of exp-function (including the term of constant) in (47) as zero; it follows

Solving the above group of equations yieldswhere . Thus, when the constants , and satisfy the above conditions, (1) has a peakon solution as follows: where is an arbitrary nonzero constant and is given above.

When and can be regarded as a free parameter, we suppose that (8) has a peakon solution as the following form: where the parameters can be determined further in the below discussions.

When , substituting (52) (i.e., ) into (8) we obtain where coefficients , , and satisfy Let the coefficients of every terms of exp-function in (53) as zero; it follows Solving the above group of equations yields Thus, when the constants and , , (1) has a peakon solution as follows: where and are arbitrary nonzero constants.

In order to show the dynamical profiles of peakon solutions (51) and (57), we plot the graphs of them for , which are shown in Figures 2(a) and 2(b).

4. Different Kinds of Exact Solutions under the Special Case

Under the special case of parameter , (7) can be rewritten as Solving (58) in different kinds of parametric conditions, we obtain different kinds of exact traveling wave solutions including solitary wave solutions and kink wave solutions; see the below discussions.

4.1. Different Kinds of Exact Traveling Wave Solutions for the Constants

When two integral constants are both zero (i.e., ), (58) can be reduced to Under different parametric conditions solving (59), we obtain a series of exact traveling wave solutions as follows: where , , and : where , , , and : where , , , and : where , , , and : where , , , and : where , , , and : where , and or where , and .

Among these exact travelling wave solutions obtained in Section 4.1, it is worth pointing that the solutions (60) and (63) describe smooth solitary waves and the solution (67) describes kink wave and antikink wave (Figure 4). In order to show the dynamic profiles of solutions (60) and (63), we plot their graphs for , and , which are shown in Figures 3(a) and 3(b).

In order to show the dynamic profiles of solution (67), we plot its graphs for , , and , which are shown in Figures 3(a) and 3(b).

4.2. Exact Traveling Wave Solutions for the Constants and

When and , (58) can be reduced to

If , then (69) can be rewritten as By using factoring method, (70) can be rewritten in the following two forms: or where , and are roots of the equation and the is real root; the   are conjugate complex roots. , and can be expressed by the parameters , and , and here we omit their expressions because they are very complex. But we can always obtain their values by using computer once the parameters , and are fixed on concrete values. For example, taking ,, we get , , and ; taking , we get , , and .

Solving (71) and (72), we obtain two periodic wave solutions of (1) as follows: where If , then (69) can be rewritten as By using factoring method, (75) can be rewritten in the following two forms: or where , and are same as the above case.

Solving (76) and (77), we obtain two periodic wave solutions of (1) as follows: where

4.3. Exact Traveling Wave Solutions for the Constants and

When and , (58) can be rewritten as The types of solutions of (81) contain many cases due to the roots of the quartic equation which is in (81) and have many possibilities, but all solutions of (1) under different kinds of cases are periodic solutions of Jacobian elliptic function type such as the forms of solutions (73), (78), and (79). For convenience to discuss, here we only consider one case which this quartic equation has four real roots. Obviously, we can always obtain the real roots of this quartic equation by using computer once the parameters , and are fixed on concrete values. Supposing , and are four real roots of this quartic equation, we will obtain different kinds of periodic wave solutions of Jacobian elliptic function type for (1); see the following discussions.

Case 1. Under , respectively, taking different root of the , and as initial value to integrate (81) yields where and where and where and where .
Respectively, completing the above integrals in (82), (83), (84), and (85), we obtain four periodic wave solutions of Jacobian elliptic function type of (1) as follows: where and .

Case 2. Under , respectively, taking different root of the , and as initial value to integrate (81) yields where and where and where and where .
Similarly completing the above integrals in (87), (88), (89), and (90), we obtain another four periodic wave solutions of Jacobian elliptic function type of (1) as follows: where and .

In Sections 4.2 and 4.3, all the exact solutions obtained by us are periodic solutions of Jacobian elliptic function types. As an example, we plot the graphs of profiles of the solutions (78) and (79) for , and , which are shown in Figures 5(a) and 5(b).

5. Conclusions

Though Frobenius’ idea is a well-known general method, it can solve some very complex PDE models with highly nonlinear terms and high order terms such as (1) when it combines with the integral bifurcation method. In this work, by using Frobenius’ idea together with integral bifurcation method, we study the third order nonlinear water wave model (1). Under different kinds of parametric conditions, we obtain eight types of exact travelling wave solutions including the smooth solitary wave solutions (60), (63), and (65), the nonsmooth peakon wave solutions (51) and (57), the kink wave and antikink wave solutions (67) and (68), the smooth periodic wave solutions of trigonometric function type (14), (16), (21), (24), (28), (31), (34), (36), (38), (40), and (43), the nonsmooth periodic wave solutions of trigonometric function type (62), (64), and (66), the periodic wave solutions of Jacobian elliptic function type (78), (86), (91), and (92), the hyperbolic function solutions (13), (15), (20), (23), (27), (30), (33), (35), (44), and (61), and the rational function solution (45). Though the types of these solutions obtained in this work are not new and they are familiar types, the results of (1) obtained by us in this paper did not appear in any existing literatures. Particularly, compared with reference [45], all results obtained in this paper are new. Among these solutions obtained in this paper, some of them have direct physical applications. For example, using the smooth solitary wave solutions, nonsmooth peakon wave solutions, and kink and antikink wave solutions, we can explain lots of motion phenomena for water wave; indeed (1) is just a very important water wave model.

Conflict of Interests

The author declares that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper.

Acknowledgments

This work is supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant no. 11361023, the Natural Science Foundation of Scientific and Technical Committee of Chongqing City under Grant no. cstc2014jcyjA00014, the Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing Normal University under Grant no. 13XLR20, and the Program Foundation of Chongqing Innovation Team Project in University under Grant no. KJTD201308.