Research Article

Solitary Wave Formation from a Generalized Rosenau Equation

Table 2

Examples of generalized Rosenau equations = 0, their acronyms, and numerical methods for their solution.

E.A. Numerical method

R dGM () [15]
R CN, iterative SOR FDM [22]
R Conservative IL3TL FDM [23]
R EB Galerkin FEM [24]
R Conservative IL3TL FDM [25]
R Conservative IL3TL FDM [26]

R-B Conservative IL3TL FDM [27]
R-B Conservative IL3TL FDM [28]
R-B CN FDM [29]
R-B RK3 QBSPCM [30]
R-B Conservative IL3TL FDM [31]
R-B Implicit IL2TL FDM [32]
R-B Conservative IL3TL FDM [33]

R-KdV Conservative IL3TL FDM [34]
R-KdV RK3 QBSPCM [35]
R-KdV Conservative IL3TL FDM [36]
R-KdV Conservative CN FDM [37]
R-KdV EB FEM [38]
R-KdV CN FEM [38]
R-KdV IL3TL FEM [38]

R-RLW Conservative IL2TL FDM [39]
R-RLW Conservative IL3TL FDM [40]
R-RLW Galerkin FEM with CN [41]
R-RLW Conservative CN FDM [42]
R-RLW IL3TL FDM [43]
R-RLW RK54 QBSPCM [44]
R-RLW Conservative IL3TL FDM [36]

R-KdV-RLW Conservative IL3TL FDM [36]

Equation acronym (E.A.): R = Rosenau, RLW = regularized long-wave, B = Burgers, and KdV = Korteweg-de Vries. Numerical method: dGM = discontinuous Galerkin method, FDM = finite difference method, FEM = finite element method, QBSPCM = quintic B-splines collocation method, SOR = successive overrelaxation, CN = Crank-Nicolson, RK3 = third-order accurate Runge-Kutta method, IL2TL = implicit linear two-time level, IL3TL = implicit linear three-time level, and EB = Euler's backward time discretization. Unless stated otherwise θ = 1.