PLoS ONE (Jan 2014)

Lie symmetry analysis and explicit solutions of the time fractional fifth-order KdV equation.

  • Gang Wei Wang,
  • Tian Zhou Xu,
  • Tao Feng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0088336
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 2
p. e88336

Abstract

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In this paper, using the Lie group analysis method, we study the invariance properties of the time fractional fifth-order KdV equation. A systematic research to derive Lie point symmetries to time fractional fifth-order KdV equation is performed. In the sense of point symmetry, all of the vector fields and the symmetry reductions of the fractional fifth-order KdV equation are obtained. At last, by virtue of the sub-equation method, some exact solutions to the fractional fifth-order KdV equation are provided.