New Wave Solutions of Time-Fractional Coupled Boussinesq–Whitham–Broer–Kaup Equation as A Model of Water Waves

• Published in: China ocean engineering 2019-08, Vol.33 (4), p.477-483
• Main Authors: Atilgan, Emrah, Senol, Mehmet, Kurt, Ali, Tasbozan, Orkun
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Boussinesq approximation; Boussinesq equations; Chains; Coastal Sciences; Derivatives; Engineering; Fluid- and Aerodynamics; Marine & Freshwater Sciences; Numerical and Computational Physics; Oceanography; Offshore Engineering; Ordinary differential equations; Partial differential equations; Shallow water; Shallow water waves; Simulation; Technical Notes; Water waves
• ISSN: 0890-5487; 2191-8945
• DOI: 10.1007/s13344-019-0045-1

The main purpose of this paper is to obtain the wave solutions of conformable time fractional Boussinesq–Whitham–Broer–Kaup equation arising as a model of shallow water waves. For this aim, the authors employed auxiliary equation method which is based on a nonlinear ordinary differential equation. By using conformable wave transform and chain rule, a nonlinear fractional partial differential equation is converted to a nonlinear ordinary differential equation. This is a significant impact because neither Caputo definition nor Riemann–Liouville definition satisfies the chain rule. While the exact solutions of the fractional partial derivatives cannot be obtained due to the existing drawbacks of Caputo or Riemann–Liouville definitions, the reliable solutions can be achieved for the equations defined by conformable fractional derivatives.