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Envelope solitons for generalized forms of the phi-four equation
*Corresponding author wazwaz@sxu.edu (Abdul-Majid Wazwaz)
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This article was originally published by Elsevier and was migrated to Scientific Scholar after the change of Publisher.
Available online 22 August 2012
Peer review under responsibility of King Saud University.
Abstract
We consider two variants of the generalized phi-four equation with arbitrary constant coefficients and general values of the exponents in the dissipation and nonlinear terms. By using solitary wave ansatze in terms of sechp(x) and tanhp(x) functions respectively, we find the non-topological (bright) as well as topological (dark) soliton solutions for the considered models. The physical parameters in the soliton solutions are obtained as a function of the dependent model coefficients. The conditions of existence of solitons are presented. Further, we show that the obtained soliton solutions depend on the exponent of the wave function u(x, t), positive or negative, and on all the dependent model coefficients as well.
Keywords
Phi-four equation
Bright solitons
Dark solitons
Solitary wave ansatz
Introduction
In the theoretical investigation of the dynamics of nonlinear waves in physical systems several kinds of nonlinear partial differential equations (NLPDEs) take an important role. These equations appear in a great array of contexts such as, for example, in plasma physics, fluid mechanics, nonlinear optics, hydrodynamics, quantum mechanics and many other fields. It should be noted that the propagation behavior of nonlinear waves depends on the model coefficients which can be constant or variable parameters depending on the physical situation.
In the past decades, studies have been made on the aspect of integrability of NLPDEs. A given nonlinear evolution equation can be considered integrable when it is equivalent to the compatibility condition for the associated Lax pair (Ablowitz and Clarkson, 1992). Lax pair can be used not only to demonstrate the integrability but also to construct the soliton solutions via the Darboux transformation (Ablowitz and Clarkson, 1992). In many practical physics problems ((Triki and Wazwaz, 2010), the resulting nonlinear wave equations of interest are nonintegrable (Palacios, 2004). In some particular cases they may be close to an integrable one (Palacios, 2004). It is remarkable that non- integrability is not necessarily related to the nonlinear terms (Palacios and Fernandez-Diaz, 2000). Higher order dispersions, for example, also can make the system to be non- integrable (while it remains Hamiltonian) (Palacios and Fernandez-Diaz, 2000).
By means of different modern methods of integrability (Triki and Wazwaz, 2009a,b, 2010, 2011a,b; Triki and Ismail, 2010; Triki and Taha, 2012) such as the coupled amplitude-phase formalism (Du et al., 1995; Palacios et al., 1999), the hyperbolic tangent method (Malfliet, 1992), Hirota bilinear method (Nakkeeran, 2002; Wazwaz, 2005a,b, 2010), the sub-ODE method (Li and Wang, 2007; Triki and Wazwaz, 2009a), the solitary wave ansatz method (Biswas et al., 2011; Biswas, 2008a,b, 2009a,b; Saha et al., 2009) and other methods as well, a rich variety of exact solutions have been obtained. Based on these exact solutions directly, we can accurately analyze the properties of the propagating waves in dynamical systems. These methods work even though the Painleve test of integrability will fail (Biswas, 2009b).
The phi-four equation reads (Wazwaz, 2005b)
For the purpose of better understanding the effect of the exponents and the dependent model coefficients on the properties of the resulting solitons, we consider the following two variants:
Our interest in the present paper (Esfahani, 2011) is to search for the solitary wave solutions for Eqs. (5) and (6) as they appear, namely for three arbitrary coefficients a, b and c and general values of the integers l, m and n. The technique that will be used is the solitary ansatz method, which is one of the most effective direct methods to construct solitary wave solutions of nonlinear evolution equations, see for example (Biswas et al., 2011; Biswas, 2008a,b, 2009a,b; Saha et al., 2009) and references therein. In particular, we show that the existence of solitary wave solutions (Triki and Taha, 2012) depends essentially on the model coefficients a, b and c, and therefore on the specific nonlinear and dissipation features of the medium. Notably, solitary waves, which are localized traveling waves, asymptotically zero at large distances, are very interesting from the point of view of applications.
Soliton solutions via the solitary wave ansatz
Variant I
We first consider the variant I of the generalized phi-four equation with positive exponents (5):
Bright solitons
To find an exact bright soliton solution for (7), we use the following solitary wave ansatz (Biswas et al., 2011; Biswas, 2008a,b; Saha et al., 2009)
From the ansatz (8), one gets
Dark solitons
In this subsection the search is going to be for shock wave solution or topological 1-soliton solution to the generalized phi-four equation given by (7). To start off, the hypothesis is given by (Saha et al., 2009; Triki and Wazwaz, 2009a,b)
From the ansatz (24), we get
It is of interest to note that when m = 3, n = l = 1 and b = c = −1, the generalized phi-four Eq. (7) will be reduced to (1) and the corresponding solution (42) will have a similar form as the solution (2).
Variant II
In this section, we consider the variant II of the generalized phi-four equation with negative exponents (6):
Bright solitons
The starting hypothesis for the solution to (43) is the same as in the variant I that is given by (8) and (9). Thus from the ansatz (8), we obtain
Dark solitons
Now, we are interested in finding the dark soliton solution for the considered generalized phi-four Eq. (43). To do this, we use an ansatz solution of the form (24) and (25). Thus from assumption (24), we obtain
Setting the coefficients of the linearly independent functions tanh−pn+jτ, where j = −2,0,2 to zero yields
Conclusion
In this work, making use of solitary wave ansatze in terms of sech and tanh functions, respectively, solitary wave solution or bell-shaped soliton solutions and shock wave solution or kink-shaped soliton solutions are obtained for two variants of the generalized phi-four equations, including general values of the exponents and arbitrary model coefficients. The physical parameters in the soliton solutions are obtained as a function of the dependent model coefficients. Parametric conditions for the existence of envelope solitons have also been reported. We have found that the key factors, which determine the closed form solutions are the dependent exponents which can be positive or negative, and the model coefficients a, b and c. It should be noted that the existence of the resulting solutions is related on whether c(v2 − a) > 0 or c(a − v2) > 0. In view of the analysis, we clearly see that the solitary wave ansatz method is very efficient for solving this very interesting nonlinear equation after proving its consistency to a wide range of NLPDEs with constant and time-dependent coefficients.
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