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Travelling-wave solutions for Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers equations through factorizations

Mathematical Physics 2007-05-23 v2 math.MP

Abstract

Travelling-wave solutions of the standard and compound form of Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers equations are found using factorizations of the corresponding reduced ordinary differential equations. The procedure leads to solutions of Bernoulli equations of nonlinearity 3/2 and 2 (Riccati), respectively. Introducing the initial conditions through an imaginary phase in the travelling coordinate, we obtain all the solutions previously reported, some of them being corrected here, and showing, at the same time, the presence of interesting details of these solitary waves that have been overlooked before this investigation

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@article{arxiv.math-ph/0604004,
  title  = {Travelling-wave solutions for Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers equations through factorizations},
  author = {O. Cornejo-Perez and J. Negro and L. M. Nieto and H. C. Rosu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0604004},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

15 pages, 7 figures; version accepted for publication at Found. Phys., in addition there is the footnote on page 12