Traveling wave solutions using the variational method and the tanh method for nonlinear coupled equations

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 202, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 233-242

  Al Khaled, Kamel ^a   Al Refai, Mohammed ^b   Alawneh, Ameen ^a  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

^b UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Coupled KdV equations; Shallow water equations; tanh method; Traveling wave solutions; Variational iteration method

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; HELIUM; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; NUMERICAL METHODS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES; WAVE EQUATIONS; WAVES;

APPLIED (CO); COUPLED EQUATIONS; ELSEVIER (CO); GENERAL (CO); SHALLOW WATER EQUATION (SWE); TAN H METHOD; TRAVELING-WAVE SOLUTIONS; VARIATIONAL ITERATION METHOD (VIM); VARIATIONAL METHODS;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 46749083042     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2008.02.009     Document Type: Article

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