New Localized and Periodic Solutions to a Korteweg–de Vries Equation with Power Law Nonlinearity: Applications to Some Plasma Models

Traveling wave solutions, including localized and periodic structures (e.g., solitary waves, cnoidal waves, and periodic waves), to a symmetry Korteweg–de Vries equation (KdV) with integer and rational power law nonlinearity are reported using several approaches. In the case of the localized wave solutions, i.e., solitary waves, to the evolution equation, two different methods are devoted for this purpose. In the first one, new hypotheses with Cole–Hopf transformation are employed to find general solitary wave solutions. In the second one, the ansatz method with hyperbolic sech algorithm are utilized to obtain a general solitary wave solution. The obtained solutions recover the solitary wave solutions to all one-dimensional KdV equations with a power law nonlinearity, such as the KdV equation with quadratic nonlinearity, the modified KdV (mKdV) equation with cubic nonlinearity, the super KdV equation with quartic nonlinearity, and so on. Furthermore, two different approaches with two different formulas for the Weierstrass elliptic functions (WSEFs) are adopted for deriving some general periodic wave solutions to the evolution equation. Additionally, in the form of Jacobi elliptic functions (JEFs), the cnoidal wave solutions to the KdV-, mKdV-, and SKdV equations are obtained. These results help many authors to understand the mystery of several nonlinear phenomena in different branches of sciences, such as plasma physics, fluid mechanics, nonlinear optics, Bose Einstein condensates, and so on