Abstract and Applied Analysis

Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 784134, 5 pages

http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/784134

Research Article

Symmetry Reduced and New Exact Nontraveling Wave Solutions of (2+1)-Dimensional Potential Boiti-Leon-Manna-Pempinelli Equation

Chen Han-Lin and Xian Da-Quan

School of Sciences, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, Sichuan 621010, China

Received 21 September 2012; Accepted 8 December 2012

Academic Editor: Zhengde Dai

Copyright © 2013 Chen Han-Lin and Xian Da-Quan. 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.

With the aid of Maple symbolic computation and Lie group method, ()-dimensional PBLMP equation is reduced to some ()-dimensional PDE with constant coefficients. Using the homoclinic test technique and auxiliary equation methods, we obtain new exact nontraveling solution with arbitrary functions for the PBLMP equation.

1. Introduction

In this paper, we will consider the potential Boiti-Leon-Manna-Pempinelli (PBLMP) equation

where . By some transformations, the PBLMP equation (1) can be equivalent to the asymmetric Nizhnik-Novikov-Veselov (ANNV) system. In fact, the ANNV equation can be obtained from the inner parameter-dependent symmetry constraint of the KP equation [1] and may be considered as a model for an incompressible fluid [2]. The Painlevé analysis, Lax pair, and some exact solutions have been studied for the PBLMP equation [3]. Tang and Lou obtained the bilinear form of (1) and variable separation solutions including two arbitrary functions by the multilinear variable separation approach [4, 5].

In this paper, by means of Maple symbolic computation, we will use the Lie group method [6, 7], homoclinic test technique [8, 9] and so forth to reduce and solve the PBLMP equation. First, we will derive symmetry of (1). Then we use the symmetry to reduce (1) to some -dimensional PDE with constant coefficients. Finally, solving the reduced PDE by Homoclinic test technique and auxiliary equation methods [10, 11] implies abundant exact nontraveling wave periodic solutions for the PBLMP equation.

2. Symmetry of (1)

This section is devoted to Lie point group symmetries of (1). Let

be the symmetry of (1). Based on Lie group theory [6], satisfies the following symmetry equation:

To get some symmetries of (1), we take the function in the form

where are functions of to be determined, and satisfies (1). Substituting (4) and (1) into (3), one can get

where are arbitrary constants. are arbitrary functions of . is a arbitrary function of . Substituting (5) into (4), we obtain the symmetries of (1) as follows:

3. Symmetry Reduction of (1)

Based on the integrability of reduced equation of the symmetry (6), we consider the following three cases.

Case 1. Let in (6), then

where is an arbitrary nonzero constant, . Solving the differential equation for , one gets

Substituting (8) into (1), we get the following -dimensional nonlinear PDE with constant coefficients:

Integrating (9) once with respect to and taking integration constant to zero yield

Case 2. Taking in (6) yields

Solving the differential equation for , one gets

Substituting (12) into (1), we have the function which must satisfy the following PDE:

Case 3. Let in (6), then

Solving the equation for , we obtain

Substituting (15) into (1) yields a reduced PDE of (1) with constant coefficients:

Integrating (16) once with respect to and taking integration constant to zero yield

Combining the above results, we obtain some reduced equations of (1) expressed by (10), (13), and (17), respectively. Meanwhile many new explicit solutions of (1) from these reduced Equations. can be achieved. We omit other cases based on symmetries (6) here.

4. Solve Reduced PDE and Get Exact Nontraveling Wave Solutions of (1)

In this section, we seek exact nontraveling wave solutions of (1) by using some appropriate methods to solve reduced equations (10), (13), and (17).

4.1. Solve Reduced PDE (10)

Now, we seek solutions of (10) by auxiliary equation method. Make transformation as follows:

where are nonzero constants. Substituting (18) into (10) obtains an ordinary differential equation for as follows:

where . Let , then (19) can be written as

This is the fourth type of ellipse equation (12), its solutions are as follows:

where is the integration constant. From the result of (21), some new exact solutions through of (1) can be obtained:

Particularly, we assume , then the solution can be depicted by Figure 1(a). If , then can be depicted by Figures 1(b) and 2(a).

(a)

(b)

Figure 1: (a) The figure of as ,  ,  ,  ,  ,   . (b) The figure of as ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  .

(a)

(b)

Figure 2: (a) The figure of as ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  . (b) The figure of as ,  ,  ,  ,  .

4.2. Solve Reduced PDE (13)

Make transformation to (13) as follows:

where are non-zero constants. Substituting (23) into (13) then we have

It is equivalent to (19). Based on the above accordant idea, we can get

4.3. Solve Reduced PDE (17)

In this section, we use homoclinic test technique [8, 9] to (17) and transform the unknown function as follows:

Substituting (26) into (17) and using the bilinear form, we can get

where the Hirota operator is defined in [12]. In this case we choose extended homoclinic test function

where , and are real constants to be determined. Substituting (28) into (27) yields a set of algebraic equations as follows:

Solving the above equations (29) yields

where . Substituting (30)–(33) into (28) yields the solutions through of (1) as follows:

when in (30);

when in (30);

when in (31) (see Figure 2(b));

when in (32);

when in (33).

Remark 1. If one lets in (16), then (16) can be written as

This is the famous KdV equation.

5. Conclusions

In this paper, a combination of Lie group method and homoclinic test technique and so forth is applied and thus the symmetries (6) are obtained. The (2+1)-dimensional potential Boiti-Leon-Manna-Pempinelli equation (1) is reduced to -dimensional nonlinear PDE of constant coefficients (10), (13), and (17). Further auxiliary equation method and homoclinic test technique are used and some new exact non-traveling wave solutions are obtained. And they include some special and strange structures to be further studied and other relevant solutions about symmetry (6) will be discussed later in another paper. Our results show that combining the Lie group method with homoclinic test technique and so forth is effective in finding nontraveling wave exact solutions of nonlinear evolution equations.

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Professor Dai Zhengde for his helpful discussions. This work was supported by the Chinese Natural Science Foundation Grant no. 10971169 and the key research projects of Sichuan Provincial Educational Administration, no. 10ZA021.

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