Explicit traveling wave solutions of five kinds of nonlinear evolution equations (Q2431211)

After a detailed definition of traveling wave type solutions (TWS) and a description of their properties the authors investigate solutions of this type to five kinds of nonlinear evolution equations: nonlinear convection diffusion equations (including Burgers equations), nonlinear dispersive wave equations (including Koterweg-de Vries equations), nonlinear dissipative dispersive wave equations (including Ginzburg-Landau equation, Koterweg-de Vries-Burgers equation and Benjamin-Bona-Mahony-Burgers equation), nonlinear hyperbolic equations (including sine-Gordon equation) and nonlinear reaction diffusion equations (including Belousov-Zhabotinskii system). The explicit forms of TW-solutions to these equations are established with their comprehensive and systematic treatment. The basic idea to find the explicit TWS is to reduce higher order ordinary differential equations to lower order ones.