- College of Science, Shenyang Institute of Engineering, Shenyang, China
The coupled Korteweg-de Vries (cKdV) equations with two arbitrary constants hold significant importance in the field of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS). These equations describe the behavior of nonlinear waves in MEMS devices. In MEMS applications, the cKdV equations can be used to analyze the dynamics of microstructures such as cantilevers, membranes, and resonators. By solving these equations, researchers can predict the behavior of MEMS devices under different operating conditions. In this paper, the
1 Introduction
In the fields of physics and other disciplines, numerous phenomena are often described by nonlinear evolution equations (NLEEs). To gain a deep understanding of the physical mechanisms behind natural phenomena represented by the NLEEs, it is crucial to study their exact solutions. Many methods have been developed to obtain exact solutions for NLEES, such as the inverse scattering transform [1], the Darboux transformation [2], Bäcklund transformation [3], the Hirota method [4], the Wronskian technique [5], homogeneous balance method [6, 7], truncated Painlev
In recent years, the generalized
In this paper, we aim to extend the generalized
2 Introduction of the extended -expansion method
For a given NLEEs with variable
through the application of the travelling wave transformation
we work towards getting its solutions in a more general form:
in which
Since Equation 2.3 contains
Step 1. Determine the integer value of
Step 2. Derive an algebraic equation system. Substituting Equation 2.3 and Equation 2.4 into Equation 2.2 with the
Step 3. Solve the algebraic equation system. Employ Maple to solve the algebraic equation system and obtain the explicit expressions for
Step 4. Get the exact solutions. By substituting the outcomes from the previous steps, we are able to obtain a series of travelling solutions of Equation 2.2 which rely on the fundamental solution
3 Solutions of the cKdV equations
In this part, we intend to utilize our method to acquire new and more general exact travelling solutions for the cKdV equations [18].
Suppose that
then, upon inserting Equation 3.3 into Equations 3.1, 3.2 separately, we get.
by integrating Equation 3.4 with respect to
Based on step 1, we find that
where
Upon substituting Equation 3.7 and Equation 3.8 along with Equation 2.4 into Equations 3.5, 3.6, the following results are achieved.
Case 1:
where λ, μ and d−1 are arbitrary constants.
Case 2:
where λ, μ and d0 are arbitrary constants.
Case 3:
where λ, μ and c0 are arbitrary constants.
Case 4:
where λ, μ and d1 are arbitrary constants.
Case 5:
where λ, μ and c0 are arbitrary constants.
Substituting Equations 3.9–3.12 into Equations 3.7, 3.8 respectively, we have five kinds of formal solutions of Equations 3.1, 3.2:
where
where
where
where
where
Then, by substituting the solutions of Equation 2.4 into Equations 3.13, 3.14, we derive three types travelling solutions of the cKdV equations as follows:
When
When
When
By substituting the solutions of Equation 2.4 into Equations 3.15, 3.16, We possess three types of travelling solutions of the cKdV equations in the following:
When
When
When
Upon substituting the general solutions of Equation 2.4 into Equations 3.17, 3.18, here are three types of travelling solutions of the cKdV equations.
When
Taking
from Equation 3.35, the solutions of Equation 3.37 can be rewritten as
if we set
Comparing our results in Equation 3.39 with other results by Exp-function method in [19], then it can be seen that the forms are similar.
When
When
Puting the general solutions of Equation 2.4 into Equations 3.19, 3.20, three types of travelling solutions of the cKdV equations are given in the following:
When
When
When
Substituting the general solutions of Equation 2.4 into Equations 3.21, 3.22, we have three types travelling solutions of the cKdV equations in the following:
When
If
where
When
When
4 Conclusion
In summary, the extended
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Author contributions
JZ: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal Analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review and editing. FY: Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review and editing.
Funding
The author(s) declare that financial support was received for the research and/or publication of this article. This work was supported by Natural Science Foundation of LiaoningProvince (2023-MSLH-229, 2024-MSLH-336) and Scientific Research Fund of Liaoning Provincial Education Department (LJ212411632012, LJ222411632015).
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Keywords: extended (G′/G)-expansion method, nonlinear evolution equations, coupled KdV equations, micro-electro-mechanical systems, computerized mechanization
Citation: Zhang J and You F (2025) Extended -expansion method for solving the coupled KdV equations with two arbitrary constants and its application to MEMS system. Front. Phys. 13:1569291. doi: 10.3389/fphy.2025.1569291
Received: 31 January 2025; Accepted: 08 April 2025;
Published: 06 May 2025.
Edited by:
Ji-Huan He, Soochow University, ChinaReviewed by:
Sheng Zhang, Bohai University, ChinaChe Haziqah Che Hussin, Preparatory Centre for Science and Technology Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia
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