Beyond the tanh method-looking for explicit travelling wave solutions to partial differential equations

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dc.contributor.advisor Banasiak, Jacek
dc.contributor.postgraduate Maqele, Khanyisani
dc.date.accessioned 2023-01-20T09:34:05Z
dc.date.available 2023-01-20T09:34:05Z
dc.date.created 2023-04-30
dc.date.issued 2022
dc.description Dissertation (MSc)--University of Pretoria, 2022. en_US
dc.description.abstract In this work, we focus on a general procedure for finding exact travelling wave solutions for evolution equations with polynomial nonlinearites. Mathematically, looking for travelling wave solutions is asking the question whether a given PDE has solutions invariant under a Galilean transformation; in such a case, it can be reduced to an ODE. We discuss the existence of travelling wave solutions by using phase plane analysis. We show that popular methods such as the tanh-method, G0/G-method and many more are special cases of the presented approach. Analytical solutions to several examples of nonlinear equations are illustrated. In the application, we use the Maple program to compute solutions to nonlinear systems of equations. en_US
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dc.description.degree MSc en_US
dc.description.department Mathematics and Applied Mathematics en_US
dc.identifier.citation * en_US
dc.identifier.other A2023
dc.identifier.uri https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/88914
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher University of Pretoria
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dc.subject UCTD en_US
dc.subject Polynomial nonlinearites en_US
dc.subject Travelling wave solutions en_US
dc.subject Evolution equations en_US
dc.subject Galilean transformation en_US
dc.subject Tanh-method en_US
dc.subject G0/G-method en_US
dc.subject Maple program en_US
dc.title Beyond the tanh method-looking for explicit travelling wave solutions to partial differential equations en_US
dc.type Dissertation en_US


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