Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 2015 (2015), Article ID 310945, 7 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/310945

Research Article

Exact Periodic Wave, Bisoliton, and Various Breather Solutions for the Zakharov Equations

Heng Wang,¹ Longwei Chen,¹ Hongjiang Liu,² and Shuhua Zheng¹

¹College of Statistics and Mathematics, Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, Kunming, Yunnan 650221, China
²City and Environment College, Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, Kunming, Yunnan 650221, China

Received 17 July 2015; Revised 2 November 2015; Accepted 5 November 2015

Academic Editor: Masoud Hajarian

Copyright © 2015 Heng Wang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract.

The Zakharov equations, which involve the interactions between Langmuir and ion acoustic waves in plasma, are analytically studied. By using the method of Exp-function, the periodic wave, bisoliton, Akhmediev breather, Ma breather, and Peregrine breather of the Zakharov equations are obtained. These results presented in this paper enrich the diversity of solution structures of the Zakharov equations. Furthermore, based on the numerical simulations of these solutions, some physics analysis of bisolitons and various breathers are given.

1. Introduction

In this paper, we consider the following Zakharov equations:

where is the perturbed number density of the ion (in the low-frequency response), is the slow variation amplitude of the electric field intensity, is the thermal transportation velocity of the electron-ion, , , and [1]. The Zakharov equation is one of the classical models describing the interactions between high- and low-frequency waves and governing nonlinear dynamics of travelling waves. In the interaction of laser-plasma, (1) plays crucial roles. In recent years, many exact solutions of (1) have been successfully obtained by different methods in [2–7].

Recently, some important mathematical physics equations have been widely studied [8–12]. In particular, the investigation of the rogue wave phenomenon of nonlinear partial differential equation achieved some significant advances. Many rogue waves have been obtained [13–18]. Here we continue to analyze the rogue wave phenomenon and study the existence of rogue waves of (1).

Firstly, we set ; and are arbitrary real constants. Equation (1) is transformed into the following equations:

Next (2) is reduced to the -dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equation:

where .

Then, to find the exact solutions of the Zakharov equations, we assume that

where is a real constant. Substituting (4) into (3), we have

where , , and are real functions. We separate the imaginary and real parts of (5) and have

We suppose that , , and are the following functions:

where , , , , , , , and are the constants to be determined later. We substitute (7) into (6) and equate all coefficients of to 0, and then we obtain a set of algebraic equations for , , , , , , , and . With the aid of Maple, we have

Substituting (8) and (7) into (4), we can obtain the solution of (3) as follows:

Finally, according to , we obtain the exact solution of (1) as follows:

where . Here (10) is a unified solution formula of (1) which can produce periodic wave solution, bisoliton solution, and a series of breather solutions.

2. Exact Periodic Wave, Bisoliton, and Various Breather Solutions for (1)

In this section, according to (10), when we select different parameters in (10), we can obtain different structure exact solutions of (1) as follows.

Case 1 (the periodic wave solution). When , we set , and we obtain the following periodic solution:

Case 2 (the bisoliton solution). When and , we obtain the following bisoliton solution:

Case 3 (various breather solutions). (1) When and , we obtain the following Akhmediev breather solution:

(2) When , we set , and we obtain the following Ma breather solution:

(3) When , we set and , and we obtain the following Peregrine breather solution:

To verify the correctness of our results, by using the numerical simulation method, the 3D graphics of the periodic waves, bisolitons, and various breathers of (1) are given in Figures 1–10.

Figure 1: The 3D graphics of in (11) (, , , , , , , , , and ).

Figure 2: The 3D graphics of in (11) (, , , , , , , , , and ).

Figure 3: The 3D graphics of in (12) (, , , , , , , , , and ).

Figure 4: The 3D graphics of in (12) (, , , , , , , , , and ).

Figure 5: The 3D graphics of in (13) (, , , , , , , , , and ).

Figure 6: The 3D graphics of in (13) (, , , , , , , , , and ).

Figure 7: The 3D graphics of in (14) (, , , , , , , , , and ).

Figure 8: The 3D graphics of in (14) (, , , , , , , , , and ).

Figure 9: The 3D graphics of in (15) (, , , , , , , , and ).

Figure 10: The 3D graphics of in (15) (, , , , , , , , and ).

3. Conclusion

To summarize, by using the Exp-function method, we have obtained the periodic wave solution, bisoliton solution, and various breather solutions of the Zakharov equations. Firstly, by using the appropriate transformation, the Zakharov equations are transformed into the -dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equation. Then, based on the Exp-function method, a unified solution formula of the -dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equation is given. Under different parameter conditions, the exact solutions of the Zakharov equations which contain the periodic wave solution, bisoliton solution, Akhmediev breather solution, Ma breather solution, and Peregrine breather solution are obtained. The results greatly enrich the diversity of exact solutions of the Zakharov equations.

Secondly, based on the numerical simulations of these solutions, we obtain some physics behind our results. Figures 3 and 4 show the bisolitons which move to each other; they meet and have an elastic collision. When the elastic collision occurs, the amplitude is obviously increased. After separation, they do the reverse motion. Figures 5 and 6 show Akhmediev breather; it yields the breather which affects spatial direction. Figures 7 and 8 show Ma breather; it yields the breather which affects time direction. Figures 9 and 10 show Peregrine breather which is a high amplitude wave. With the increase of time, the wavelength becomes larger, and the amplitude decreases gradually. Finally, it becomes a plane wave.

Finally, when and , based on the work of Akhmediev et al. [19, 20], we can obtain the following higher-order rational rogue wave solutions of (3):

where , , and . Then we have the following higher-order rational rogue wave solutions of (1):

Conflict of Interests

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper.

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