Explicit and accurate solutions for the Benney equation
Abstract
The Benney equation arises from many different physical contexts as an appropriately real physical model equation involving a lot of effects of dispersion, dissipation, nonlinearity, and instability. As a result, it is a very important and challenging theme to search for the explicit and accurate traveling wave solutions of the Benney equation. In this paper, by introducing an ansatz solution with two E-exponential functions, we have made some improvements to the trial function approach for solving three NPDEs proposed by Xie and Tang. On this basis, we have put forward a direct trial function approach to search for the explicit and accurate traveling wave solutions of NEEs. We have demonstrated its effectiveness by applying it to the Benney equation. Therefore, a series of more general explicit and accurate traveling wave solutions to the Benney equation, comprising the solitary wave solutions and the singular traveling wave solutions, are successfully derived in a forthright and concise way. The obtained results are completely consistent with those given in the existing references. In addition, compared with the proposed approaches in the existing references, the technique described herein seems to be less calculative. Our approach may provide a novel way of thinking for solving NEEs. We firmly believe that the method used herein may also be applied to search for the explicit and accurate traveling wave solutions to other NEEs. We plan to extend this technique to search for the explicit and accurate traveling wave solutions of other NEEs.
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