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On shallow water waves in a medium with time-dependent dispersion and nonlinearity coefficients
Hamdy I Abdel-Gawad1, Mohamed Osman1
1Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt.
Abstract:
In this paper, we studied the progression of shallow water waves relevant to the variable coefficient Korteweg-de Vries (vcKdV) equation. We investigated two kinds of cases: when the dispersion and nonlinearity coefficients are proportional, and when they are not linearly dependent. In the first case, it was shown that the progressive waves have some geometric structures as in the case of KdV equation with constant coefficients but the waves travel with time dependent speed. In the second case, the wave structure is maintained when the nonlinearity balances the dispersion. Otherwise, water waves collapse. The objectives of the study are to find a wide class of exact solutions by using the extended unified method and to present a new algorithm for treating the coupled nonlinear PDE's.
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