A modified tanh-coth method for solving the general Burgers-Fisher and the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equations

Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2642-2652

  Wazzan, Luwai ^a  

^a KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

General Burgers Fisher equation; Kuramoto Sivashinsky equation; Riccati equation; The extended tanh method; The tanh coth method; Travelling wave solutions

Indexed keywords

PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

BURGERS-FISHER EQUATION; GENERAL BURGER-FISHER EQUATION; KURAMOTO-SIVASHINSKY EQUATIONS; TANH FUNCTIONS; TANH METHOD; TANH-COTH METHOD; THE EXTENDED TANH METHOD; THE TANH-COTH METHOD; TRAVELING WAVE SOLUTION;

RICCATI EQUATIONS;

EID: 58349105753     PISSN: 10075704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2008.08.004     Document Type: Article

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