Abstract and Applied Analysis

Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 630282, 5 pages

http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/630282

Research Article

Nonlinearly Self-Adjoint, Conservation Laws and Solutions for a Forced BBM Equation

Maria Luz Gandarias¹ and Chaudry Masood Khalique²

¹Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad de Cádiz, P.O. Box 40, Puerto Real, 11510 Cádiz, Spain

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 31 January 2014; Accepted 2 March 2014; Published 3 April 2014

Academic Editor: Mariano Torrisi

Copyright © 2014 Maria Luz Gandarias and Chaudry Masood Khalique. 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.

We study a forced Benjamin-Bona-Mahony (BBM) equation. We prove that the equation is not weak self-adjoint; however, it is nonlinearly self-adjoint. By using a general theorem on conservation laws due to Nail Ibragimov and the symmetry generators, we find conservation laws for these partial differential equations without classical Lagrangians. We also present some exact solutions for a special case of the equation.

1. Introduction

In a recent paper [1], Eloe and Usman have considered the damped externally excited Benjamin-Bona-Mahony (BBM) type equation given by

where and are nonnegative constants that are proportional to the strength of the damping effect. Equation (1) was introduced to model long waves in nonlinear dispersive systems. Some special cases of (1) are studied in [2, 3]. If and , , , and , then (1) reduces to the celebrated Benjamin-Bona-Mahony (BBM) equation

The well-known BBM equation (2) was derived in [4] for moderately long wave equations in nonlinear dispersive systems. The authors derived three conservation laws for (2) and also considered the forcing equation. In [5], it was proved that these conservation laws are the only conservation laws admitted by the BBM equation. In [6], a family of BBM equations with strong nonlinear dispersive term was considered from the point of view of symmetry analysis. The symmetry reductions were derived from the optimal system of subalgebras and lead to systems of ordinary differential equations. For special values of the parameters of this equation, many exact solutions are expressed by various single and combined nondegenerative Jacobi elliptic function solutions and their degenerative solutions (soliton, kink, and compactons). In [7], nonlocal symmetries of a family of Benjamin-Bona-Mahony-Burgers equations were studied. In [8] for a family of Benjamin-Bona-Mahony equations with strong nonlinear dispersion, the subclass of equations which are self-adjoint was determined and some nontrivial conservation laws were derived. In [9], da Silva and Freire showed that the BBM equation is strictly self-adjoint and a conservation law obtained from the scaling invariance was established.

In [1], the authors have obtained an analytic steady state solution of (1) and they have studied properties of some travelling wave solutions using a perturbation method.

In [10], the first author of this paper introduced the definition of weak self-adjointness and showed that the substitution can be replaced with a more general substitution, where involves not only the variable but also the independent variables . In [11], Ibragimov pointed out that, in constructing conservation laws, it is only important that does not vanish identically and introduced the definition of nonlinearly self-adjoint equation; that is, the substitution can be replaced with a more general substitution, where involves not only the variable but also its derivatives as well as the independent variables; that is, .

In this paper, we consider a generalization of the damped externally excited Benjamin-Bona-Mahony type equation (1), that is, the forced BMM type equation

where and are nonnegative constants that are proportional to the strength of the damping effect and is an arbitrary function of the variables and .

The aim of this paper is to prove that (3) is nonlinearly self-adjoint. We determine, by using the Lie generators of (3) and the notation and techniques of [12], some nontrivial conservation laws for (3). Finally, we present some exact solutions for a special case of (3).

2. Self-Adjoint and Nonlinearly Self-Adjoint Equations

Consider an th-order partial differential equation

with independent variables and a dependent variable , where , denote the sets of the partial derivatives of the first, second, and so forth orders, , . The adjoint equation to (4) is

with

where

denotes the variational derivatives (the Euler-Lagrange operator) and is a new dependent variable. Here,

are the total differentiations.

Definition 1. Equation (4) is said to be self-adjoint if the equation obtained from the adjoint equation (5) by the substitution ,

is identical to the original equation (4).

Definition 2. Equation (4) is said to be weak self-adjoint if the equation obtained from the adjoint equation (5) by the substitution , with a certain function such that , (or ) and , is identical to the original equation.

Definition 3. Equation (4) is said to be nonlinearly self-adjoint if the equation obtained from the adjoint equation (5) by the substitution , with a certain function such that , is identical to the original equation (4).

2.1. The Subclass of Nonlinearly Self-Adjoint Equations

Let us single out some nonlinearly self-adjoint equations from the equations of the form (3). Equation (6) yields

Setting in (10), we get

Now, we assume that

where is an undetermined coefficient. Condition (12) reads

Comparing the coefficients for the different derivatives of , we obtain

where and satisfy the following conditions:

From above, we get that

with and the following condition must be satisfied:

We can now state the following theorem.

Theorem 4. Equation (3) is nonlinearly self-adjoint with

for any functions and satisfying condition (17).

In particular, we can state the following theorem.

Theorem 5. Equation (3) is nonlinearly self-adjoint for any arbitrary function with

3. Conservation Laws: General Theorem

We use the following theorem on conservation laws proved in [12].

Theorem 6. Any Lie point, Lie-Bäcklund, or non-local symmetry

of (4) provides a conservation law for system (4), (5). The conserved vector is given by

where and are defined as follows:

Let us apply Theorem 6 to the nonlinearly self-adjoint equation:

where

provided by the generator

Here, must satisfy . We get the conservation law

with

where

We simplify the conserved vector by transferring the terms of the form from to and obtain

4. Exact Solutions

In this section, we obtain exact solutions of (3) when and ; that is, we consider the following equation:

This equation has two translation symmetries; namely, and . We first use these two symmetries and transform (30) into an ordinary differential equation. Then, employing the simplest equation method, we obtain exact solutions.

4.1. Symmetry Reduction of (30)

The symmetry gives rise to the group-invariant solution

where is an invariant of . Substitution of (31) into (30) results in the nonlinear third-order ordinary differential equation

4.2. Exact Solutions Using Simplest Equation Method

Let us briefly recall the simplest equation method [13, 14] here. Consider the solutions of (32) in the form

where satisfies a Bernoulli or Riccati equation, is a positive integer that can be determined by a balancing procedure [14], and the coefficients are parameters to be determined.

The Bernoulli equation we consider here is given by

which has a solution in the form

For the Riccati equation

we will use the two solutions

where and is a constant of integration.

4.2.1. Solutions of (30) Using Bernoulli Equation as the Simplest Equation

In this case, the balancing procedure [14] gives and therefore the solutions of (32) are of the form

Now, substituting (38) into (32) and making use of (34) and then equating all coefficients of the functions to zero, we obtain an algebraic system of equations in terms of , , and .

Solving this system of algebraic equations, with the aid of Mathematica, we obtain

Thus, a solution of (30) is

where and is a constant of integration.

4.2.2. Solutions of (30) Using Riccati Equation as the Simplest Equation

The balancing procedure yields so the solutions of (32) are of the form

Again substituting (41) into (32) and making use of the Riccati equation (36), we obtain, as before, an algebraic system of equations in terms of . Solving the algebraic system of equations, one obtains

and hence solutions of (30) are

where and is a constant of integration.

5. Conclusions

We have proved that the generalized forced BBM equation (3) is nonlinearly self-adjoint. We have determined, by using the Lie generators of (3) and the notation and techniques of [12], some nontrivial conservation laws for (3). Finally, we presented some exact solutions for a special case of (3).

Conflict of Interests

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

Acknowledgments

Maria Luz Gandarias acknowledges the support of Junta de Andalucía Group FQM-201 and Chaudry Masood Khalique thanks the North-West University, Mafikeng Campus, for its continued support.

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