Exact solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations

Barbara Abraham-Shrauner

doi:10.3934/dcdss.2018032

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Exact solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations

Barbara Abraham-Shrauner^,

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Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA

* Corresponding author: Barbara Abraham-Shrauner
* Corresponding author: Barbara Abraham-Shrauner

Received: November 2016

Revised: May 2017

Published: August 2018

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Tests for determination of which nonlinear partial differential equations may have exact analytic nonlinear solutions of any of two types of hyperbolic functions or any of three types of Jacobian elliptic functions are presented. The Power Index Method is the principal method employed that extends the calculation of the power index for the most nonlinear terms to all terms in the nonlinear partial differential equations. An additional test is the identification of the net order of differentiation of each term in the nonlinear differential equations. The nonlinear differential equations considered are evolution equations. The tests extend the homogeneous balance condition that is necessary to conditions that may only be sufficient but are very simple to apply. Superposition of Jacobian elliptic functions is also presented with the introduction of a new basis that simplifies the calculations.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: 35G20, 76M60, 35B06, 35C07, 35QXX.

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