Nonlinear water waves (KdV) equation and Painleve technique

Attia Mostafa

doi:10.14419/ijbas.v4i2.2708

Authors

Attia Mostafa
Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade

Received date: May 6, 2014

Accepted date: June 7, 2014

Published date: May 4, 2015

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14419/ijbas.v4i2.2708

Keywords:

Kortewege-de Vrise equation, Painleve property, Resonance points, Exact solutions.

Abstract

The Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation which is the third order nonlinear PDE has been of interest since Scott Russell (1844) . In this paper we study this kind of equation by Painleve equation and through this study, we find that KdV equation satisfies Painleve property, but we could not find a solution directly, so we transformed the KdV equation to the like-KdV equation, therefore, we were able to find four exact solutions to the original KdV equation.

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