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MSC: 35A24; 35G50
1. Introduction
2. Preliminaries Relevant to the Present Study
2.1. Fractional Derivative via Fractional Difference
2.2. Modified Fractional Riemann–Liouville Derivative
2.3. Taylor’s Series of Fractional Order
3. Description of the Generalized Algorithm of the Extended Simple Equations Method (SEsM)
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Construction of the solution of Equation (19). In addition to the known conventional methods for obtaining exact solutions of Equation (19), where such solutions are constructed by power series of the solutions of one simple (auxiliary) equation (or one special function) with the same independent variable for the both system variables in (19), the SEsM provides also several alternative variants:
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Variant 1: Constructing the solution of Equation (19) by single composite functions. These single composite functions can be:
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with distinct independent variables: This solution variant is applicable to real–world dynamical models of a type (19), where it is expected that the system variables demonstrate different wave behaviour and they move with different wave speeds. Thus, a such solution takes the form:where are generalized wave variables (to be defined in the next step) and are simple composite functions of the form:orwhere and being solutions of simple equations (to be selected at a later stage of the algorithm), and are coefficients to be determined later.Remark: The simple equations used may have the same analytical form as shown in [49], but they may have a different form. The form of the simple equations used depends on the physical wave characteristics of the real-world system being modeled.
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with a single common wave variable: This solution variant is applicable to real–world dynamical models of a type (19), where it is expected that the system variables demonstrate different wave behaviour but it is synchronized. For this case, the solution of Equation (19) reduces to:where are again two simple composite functions of the form similar to (21) or (22), that include the solutions of two distinct simple equations but with common wave variable.Remark: When the simple equations used have an identical analytical form, the solution (23) has the same form as that used in all other known methods for finding exact solutions to systems of FNPDEs (NPDES) to date.
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Variant 2: Constructing the solution of Equation (19) by complex composite functions including combinations of at least two single composite functions. The single composite functions can be:
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with distinct independent variables: This solution variant is applicable to real–world dynamical models of a type (19), where it is expected that the both system variables can exhibit both a synchronized multi–wave behavior or non–synchronized multi–wave behavior as the different waves move with different speeds. The simplest examples of synchronized multi–wave behaviour of the variables of system (19) can be expressed analytically as:where are again generalized wave variables, and the single composite functions are expressed as follows:where and are solutions of two distinct simple equations, that will be defined in Step 3 of the SEsM algorithm.
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with a single common wave variable: This solution variant is applicable to real–world dynamical models of a type (19), where it is expected that the system variables demonstrate multi–wave behaviour, where the waves propagate with the same speed. In this scenario, . Given this, it is easy to make a change in the wave coordinates in Equations (24)–(33) to obtain analogous variants of analytical solutions of Equation (19) for this specific case. The form of some solution variants in this category approaches the forms of analytical solutions proposed in several similar methodologies in this field.Remark: The analytical forms of the single composite functions can be of the same type for the both system variables, i.e. they can include combinations of solutions of simple equations with an identical analytical form. However, they can also include combinations of solutions of different types’ simple equations, as the specific construction forms being determined by the specific physical nature of the model equations.
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Selection of the traveling wave type transformation. To apply the SEsM to Equation (19), it is crucial to define the fractional derivatives in those equations. The choice of fractional derivatives (e.g., Riemann-Liouville, Caputo,conformable, etc.) is essential for accurately modeling wave dynamics and reflecting the system’s physical properties, based on factors like the process nature, boundary conditions, and memory effects interpretation. In this context, the following variants of transformations are possible:
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Variant 1: Use of a fractional transformation. The choice of explicit form of the fractional traveling wave transformation depends on how the fractional derivatives in Equation (19) are defined. Bellow, the most used fractional traveling wave transformations are selected:
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- Conformable fractional traveling wave transformation: , defined for conformable fractional derivatives [54];
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In all the cases, the studied FNPDEs are reduced to integer–order nonlinear ODEs. - Variant 2: Use a standard traveling wave transformation. In this case, by introducing a traveling wave ansatz in the selected variant solutions from Step 1, the studied FNPDEs are reduced to fractional nonlinear ODEs.
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Selection of the forms of the used simple equations.
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For Variant 1 of Step 2: The general form of the integer–order simple equations used is:By fixing and (at ) in Equation (34), different types integer–order ODEs can be used as simple equations, such as:
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- (a) ODEs of first order with known analytical solutions (For example, an ODE of Riccati, an ODE of Bernoulli, an ODE of Abel of first kind, an ODE of tanh–function,etc);
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- (b) ODEs of second order with known analytical solutions (For example elliptic equations of Jaccobi and Weiershtrass and their sub–variants, an ODE of Abel of second kind, etc.).
- For Variant 2 of Step 2: The general form of the fractional simple equations used is:By fixing and in Equation (35), several types fractional ODEs can be used as simple equations, such as a fractional ODE of Riccati (and its sub–variants) and a fractional ODE of Bernoulli.
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- Derivation of the balance equations and the system of algebraic equations. The fixation of the explicit form of constructed variant solutions of Equation (19) presented in Step 1 of the SEsM algorithm depends on the balance equations derived. Substitutions of the selected variants from Steps 1,2 and 3 in Equation (19) leads to obtaining polynomials of the functions and . The coefficients in front of these functions include the coefficients of the solution of the considered FNPDEs as well as the coefficients of the simple equations used. Analytical solutions of Equation (19) can be extracted only if each coefficient in front of the functions and contains almost two terms. Equating these coefficients to zero leads to formation of a system of nonlinear algebraic equations for each variant chosen according Steps 1,2 and 3 of the SEsM algorithm.
- Derivation of the analytical solutions. Any non–trivial solution of the algebraic system above mentioned leads to a solution of the studied FNPDEs by replacing the specific coefficients in the corresponding variant solutions, given in Step 1 as well as by changing the traveling wave coordinates chosen by the variants given in Step 2. For simplicity, these solutions are expressed through special functions. For a Variant 1 of the Step 3, these special functions are and , as their explicit forms are determined on the basis of the specific form of the simple equations chosen (For reference, see Equation (34)). For a Variant 2 of the Step 3, the special functions are and , whose exact forms are determined by the type of fractional simple equations used (For reference, see see Equation (35)).
4. Derivation of Multi–Wave Exact Solutions of Equation (1) Using a Fractional Wave Transformation
- Family 1: A solution combined distinct generalized hyperbolic functions with different independent variables:wherefor , andfor . The wave coordinates and are given in Equation (37).
- Family 2: A solution combined distinct generalized trigonometric functions with different independent variables:wherefor , andfor . The wave coordinates and are given in Equation (37).
- Family 3: Solutions combined generalized hyperbolic and trigonometric functions with different independent variables:where is presented in Equation (44) and is presented in Equation (48). The wave coordinates and are given in Equation (37).where is presented in Equation (47) and is presented in Equation (45). The wave coordinates and are given in Equation (37).
- Family 4: Solutions combined generalized elliptic and hyperbolic functions with different independent variables:wherefor . The special function is presented in Equation (45).wherefor .The special function is presented in Equation (45).wherefor .The special function is presented in Equation (45). In all solutions in this paragraph, the wave coordinates and are presented by Equation (37).
- Family 5: Solutions combined generalized elliptic and trigonometric functions with different independent variables:where is presented in Equation (52) and is presented in Equation (48).where is presented in Equation (54) and is presented in Equation (48).where is presented in Equation (56) and is presented in Equation (48). In all the solutions in this paragraph, the wave coordinates and are are presented by Equation (37).


5. Derivation of Multi–Wave Exact Solutions of Equation (2) Using a Standard Traveling Wave Transformation
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Family 3: Solutions combined distinct fractional generalized hyperbolic and trigonometric functions with different independent variables
- (b) When andwhere is presented in Equation (75) and is presented in Equation (68).where is presented in Equation (75) and is presented in Equation (71).where is presented in in Equation (78) and is presented in in Equation (67).where is presented in Equation (78) and is presented in Equation (71).
- Familly 3. Solutions combained distinct fractional generalized rational (algebraic) functions with different independent variables (When and )whereIn all the solutions provided in this section, the wave coordinates and are presented by Equation (61)


6. Conclusions
Funding
Appendix A Analytical Solutions of the Simple Equations Used in the Paper
Appendix A.1. Analytical Solutions of the Simple Equations Used in sec4
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a hyperbolic solutionfor and ;
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a trigonometric solutionfor and ;
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Jacobi elliptic function solutions:for ;for ;forwhere m is a modulus. The Jacobi elliptic functions are doubly periodical and possess properties of triangular functions. Additionally, we note that when , the Jacobi functions degenerate to the hyperbolic functions, i.e.When , the Jacobi functions degenerate to the triangular functions, i.e.Additional sub–variants of the elliptic solutions can be found in [58].
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a hyperbolic solutionfor ;
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a trigonometric solutionfor .
Appendix A.2. Analytical Solutions of the Simple Equations Used in sec5
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- for ;
- for ;
- for ;
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