Abstract and Applied Analysis

Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 350287, 7 pages

doi:10.1155/2012/350287

Research Article

Exact Solutions of Equation Using Lie Symmetry Approach along with the Simplest Equation and Exp-Function Methods

Hossein Jafari,1,2 Nematollah Kadkhoda,¹ and Chaudry Masood Khalique²

¹Department of Mathematics Science, University of Mazandaran, P.O. Box 47416-95447, Babolsar, Iran

²International Institute for Symmetry Analysis and Mathematical Modelling, Department of Mathematical Sciences, North-West University, Mafikeng Campus, Private Bag X 2046, Mmabatho 2735, South Africa

Received 21 August 2012; Revised 22 October 2012; Accepted 9 November 2012

Academic Editor: Lan Xu

Copyright © 2012 Hossein Jafari 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.

This paper obtains the exact solutions of the equation. The Lie symmetry approach along with the simplest equation method and the Exp-function method are used to obtain these solutions. As a simplest equation we have used the equation of Riccati in the simplest equation method. Exact solutions obtained are travelling wave solutions.

1. Introduction

The research area of nonlinear equations has been very active for the past few decades. There are several kinds of nonlinear equations that appear in various areas of physics and mathematical sciences. Much effort has been made on the construction of exact solutions of nonlinear equations as they play an important role in many scientific areas, such as, in the study of nonlinear physical phenomena [1, 2]. Nonlinear wave phenomena appear in various scientific and engineering fields, such as fluid mechanics, plasma physics, optical fiber, biology, oceanology [3], solid state physics, chemical physics, and geometry. In recent years, many powerful and efficient methods to find analytic solutions of nonlinear equation have drawn a lot of interest by a diverse group of scientists. These methods include, the tanh-function method, the extended tanh-function method [2, 4, 5], the sine-cosine method [6], and the -expansion method [7, 8].

In this paper, we study the equation, namely,

The purpose of this paper is to use the Lie symmetry method along with the simplest equation method (SEM) and the Exp-function method to obtain exact solutions of the equation. The simplest equation method was developed by Kudryashov [9–12] on the basis of a procedure analogous to the first step of the test for the Painlevéproperty. The Exp-function method is a very powerful method for solving nonlinear equations. This method was introduced by He and Wu [13] and since its appearance in the literature it has been applied by many researchers for solving nonlinear partial differential equations. See for example, [14, 15].

The outline of this paper is as follows. In Section 2 we discuss the methodology of Lie symmetry analysis and obtain the Lie point symmetries of the equation. We then use the translation symmetries to reduce this equation to an ordinary differential equation (ODE). In Section 3 we describe the SEM and then we obtain the exact solutions of the reduced ODE using SEM. In Section 4 we explain the basic idea of the Exp-function method and obtain exact solutions of the reduced ODE using the Exp-function method. Concluding remarks are summarized in Section 5.

2. Lie Symmetry Analysis

We recall that a Lie point symmetry of a partial differential equation (PDE) is an invertible transformation of the independent and dependent variables that keep the equation invariant. In general determining all the symmetries of a partial differential equation is a daunting task. However, Sophus Lie (1842–1899) noticed that if we confine ourselves to symmetries that depend continuously on a small parameter and that form a group (continuous one-parameter group of transformations), one can linearize the symmetry condition and end up with an algorithm for calculating continuous symmetries [16–19].

The symmetry group of (1.1) will be generated by the vector field of the form

Applying the second prolongation to (1.1) we obtain

where

Expanding the (2.2) we obtain the following overdetermined system of linear partial differential equations:

Solving the above system we obtain the following infinitesimal generators:

We now use a linear combination of the translation symmetries and , namely, and reduce (1.1) to an ordinary differential equation. The symmetry yields the following two invariants:

which gives a group invariant solution and consequently using these invariants (1.1) is transformed into the second-order nonlinear ODE

3. Solution of (2.7) Using the Simplest Equation Method

We now use the simplest equation method to solve (2.7). The simplest equation that will be used is the Ricatti equation

where and are arbitrary constants. This equation is a well-known nonlinear ordinary differential equation which possess exact solutions given by elementary functions. The solutions can be expressed as

for the case when , , and

for , . Here is a constant of integration.

Let us consider the solution of (2.7) of the form

where satisfies the Riccati equation (3.1), is a positive integer that can be determined by balancing procedure, and are parameters to be determined.

The balancing procedure yields , so the solution of (2.7) is of form

3.1. Solution of (2.7) When and

Substituting (3.5) into (2.7) and making use of the Ricatti equation (3.1) and then equating all coefficients of the functions to zero, we obtain an algebraic system of equations in terms of and . Solving these algebraic equations, with the aid of Mathematica, we obtain the following values of and .

Case 1. , , , .

Case 2. , , , .

Therefore, when , the solution of (2.7) and hence the solution of (1.1) for Case 1 is given by

and the solution of (1.1) for Case 2 is given by

3.2. Solution of (2.7) When and

If , , substituting (3.5) into (2.7) and making use of (3.1) and then proceeding as above, we obtain the following values of and .

Case 3. , , , .

Case 4. , , , .

Therefore, when , the solution of (2.7) and hence the solution of (1.1) for Case 3 is given by

and the solution of (1.1) for Case 4 is given by

4. Solution of (2.7) Using the Exp-Function Method

In this section we use the Exp-function method for solving (2.7). According to the Exp-function method [13–15], we consider solutions of (2.7) in the form

where , , , and are positive integers which are unknown to be further determined, and are unknown constants. By the balancing procedure of the Exp-function method, we obtain and . Furthermore, for simplicity, we set and , so (4.1) reduces to

Substituting (4.2) into (2.7) and by the help of Mathematica, we obtain

where is a free parameter. Substituting these results into (4.2), we obtain the exact solution

of (2.7). Consequently, if we choose that then this solution, in terms of the variables and becomes

which is a soliton solution of our equation (1.1).

5. Conclusion

In this paper, Lie symmetry analysis in conjunction with the simplest equation method and the Exp-function method have been successfully used to obtain exact solutions of the equation. As a simplest equation, we have used the Riccati equation. The solutions obtained were travelling wave solutions. In particular, a soliton solution was also obtained.

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