Traveling wave solutions of the time-delayed generalized Burgers-type equations.

BACKGROUND: Recently, nonlinear time-delayed evolution equations have received considerable interest due to their numerous applications in the areas of physics, biology, chemistry and so on.
METHODS: In this paper, we obtain traveling wave solutions by using the extended [Formula: see text]-expansion method.
RESULTS: Based on the method, we get many solutions of the time-delayed generalized Burgers-type equations.
CONCLUSIONS: The results reveal that the extended [Formula: see text]-expansion method is direct, effective and can be used for many other nonlinear time-delayed evolution equations.

Background

In recent years, theory and numerical analysis of nonlinear time-delayed evolution equations have received considerable interest due to their numerous applications in the areas of physics, biology, chemistry and so on. For better studying the nonlinear physical phenomena of nonlinear time-delayed evolution equations, the solution is much involved. In the past, several analytical and numerical methods have been used to find solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations, such as homotopy perturbation method (Kumar and Singh 2009; Kumar et al. 2012; He 1999), Laplace transform (Kumar 2014), variational iteration method (He 1997; He and Wu 2007; Tang et al. 2014), residual power series method (RPSM for short) (Kumar et al. 2016b; Yao et al. 2015), auxiliary equation method (Sirendaoreji 2003; Tang et al. 2016; Yomba 2004), homotopy analysis method (Yin et al. 2015; Kumar et al. 2016a), -expansion method (Wang et al. 2008; Zhang et al. 2010; Tang et al. 2011; Islam et al. 2014; Khan and Akbar 2014) and so on.

In this paper, we apply the extended -expansion method to obtain traveling wave solutions of the following time-delayed generalized Burgers-type equations (Kar et al. 2003):This paper is organized as follows: in “Methods” section, the main steps of extended -expansion method for obtaining traveling wave solutions of nonlinear time-delayed evolution equation are given. In “Results” section, we construct traveling solutions of the time-delayed generalized Burgers-type equation. Some conclusions are given in “Conclusions” section.

The time-delayed generalized Burgers equation:where p, s are constants and is a time-delayed constant.

The time-delayed generalized Burgers-Fisher equation:

Methods

Considering the following nonlinear evolution equation:where P is a polynomial in and its various partial derivatives.

Step 1

By means of the traveling wave transformationwhere the coefficients , h are constants. Equation (1) can be transformated as follows:

Step 2

We suppose that the Eq. (3) has the following solution:where are constants to be determined later, and satisfies the following equation:where and are arbitrary constants. Based on Eq. (5), we have

Step 3

Determine the degree n in Eq. (3) by use of homogenous balanced principle (Abdel Rady et al. 2010; Fan and Zhang 1998a, b; Senthilvelan 2001; Zhao and Tang 2002; Fan 2000; Eslami et al. 2014), namely balancing the highest order derivatives and nonlinear terms in Eq. (3).

Step 4

Substituting Eqs. (4) and (5) into Eq. (3) and clearing the denominator and collecting all terms with the same order of together, then setting each coefficient of to zero, we get a system of under-determined algebraic equations for and .

Step 5

Solving the algebraic equations in Step 4 by Maple (www.maplesoft.com), we can finally get traveling wave solutions of Eq. (1).

Results

In this section, we apply the extended -expansion method to obtain traveling wave solutions of the time-delayed generalized Burgers-type equations.

Solutions to the time-delayed generalized Burgers equation

We consider the following time-delayed generalized Burgers equation:By using transformations and , Eq. (6) can be reduced as follows:Balancing with gives which is not an integer as . So we use a transformation to change Eq. (7) into the form:We suppose that the solutions of (8) have the form (4) and (5), soFrom above two equations, we can get the degrees of and are and respectively. Balancing and in Eq. (8) yields , namely . Therefore Eq. (8) have the following solutions:Substituting Eqs. (9) and (5) into Eq. (8), we get a set of under-determined algebraic equations for , and .Solving this algebraic equations by Maple, we can obtain the two results:

Case 1

where , and are arbitrary constants.

Case 2

where , and are arbitrary constants.

Using Eqs. (9) and (10), we obtain the following solution of Eq. (6):where .

Based on Eqs. (9) and (11), we get the solution of Eq. (6) as follows:where .

Substituting the general solutions of Eq. (5) into Eq. (12), we have two kinds of travelling wave solutions as follows:

When ,where .

When ,where .

Substituting the general solutions of Eq. (5) into Eq. (13), we have the following two kinds of travelling wave solutions:

When ,where .

When ,where .

In Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4, we show the effect of the time-delayed solution (14). It should be noted that when , we can recover some traveling wave solutions of the generalized Burgers equation.

Fig. 1

The solution (14) for at , , , , , ,

Fig. 2

The solution (14) for at , , , , , ,

Fig. 3

The solution (14) for at , , , , , ,

Fig. 4

The red, green and black lines represent the solution (14) for respectively at , , , , , ,

Solutions to the time-delayed generalized Burgers–Fisher equation

In this section, we consider the time-delayed generalized Burgers–Fisher equation:By using the transformationEquation (18) is converted into the following ordinary differential equation:Balancing and in Eq. (20) gives . By using the transformation , we convert Eq. (20) intoBy balancing and in Eq. (21), we suppose that Eq. (21) have the following solutions:Using the same procedure as in the previous example, we get a set of simultaneous algebraic equations for , and .Solving the under-determined algebraic equations, we have the following results:

Case 1 Case 2 By using Eqs. (23) and (24), expression (22) can be written as:where .where .

Substituting general solutions of Eq. (5) into Eqs. (25) and (26), we have two types of travelling wave solutions of the generalized time-delayed Burgers-Fisher equation as follows:

When ,where .where .

When ,where .where .

In Figs. 5, 6, 7 and 8, we show the effect of the time-delayed solution (27). It should be noted that when , we can recover some traveling wave solutions of the generalized Burgers–Fisher equation.

Fig. 5

The solution (27) for at , , , ,

Fig. 6

The solution (27) for at , , , ,

Fig. 7

The solution (27) for at , , , ,

Fig. 8

The red, green and black lines represent the solution (27) for respectively at , , , ,

Remark 1

By using extended -expansion method, we can obtain solutions including all the solutions given in Deng et al. (2009) as special cases. For example, if setting , then solution (28) is the same as Eq. (19) in Deng et al. (2009). Similarly, solution (28) is also the same as Eq. (20) obtained in Deng et al. (2009) when we set . It shows that extended -expansion method is more powerful than the method in Deng et al. (2009) in constructing exact solutions.

Remark 2

Rosa et al. (2015) applied Lie classical method and -expansion method to Fisher equation and derived some new traveling wave solutions. If setting , then Eq. (4) becomes Eq. (14) in Rosa and Gandarias, (2015). So if we applied Lie classical method and extended -expansion method to Fisher equation, then many more exact solutions can be obtained. Searching exact solutions by use of Lie classical method and extended -expansion method is our future work.

Conclusions

Based on the extended -expansion method, we have constructed many traveling wave solutions of the time-delayed generalized Burgers-type equation which include the hyperbolic function solutions, trigonometric function solutions. The results show that the proposed method is very effective and can be used to handling many other nonlinear time-delayed evolution equations.

Declarations

In this section, we illustrate how to get the solutions presented after Eq. (5).

The general solutions of Eq. (5) can easily obtained as follows:When thenTaking , we can convert Eq. (31) into the following form:When thenTaking , we can convert Eq. (32) into the following form:When thenTaking , we can convert Eq. (33) into the following form: