Exact explicit peakon and periodic cusp wave solutions for several nonlinear wave equations (Q957744)

The author considers the existence of travelling wave solutions to the following six partial differential equations: Vakhnenko, Ostrovsky, Camasso-Holm (generalized), Rosenau-Hyman, KdV (``more realistic''), perturbed Boussinesq. The usual ansatz \(u(x,t)=\varphi(x+ct)\) leads to boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations. All these problems can be reduced to the study of the phase portrait of planar autonomous systems. By exploiting special properties of these systems, the author is able to present exact explicit parametric representations of the traveling wave solutions.