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New exact solutions to the space–time fractional nonlinear wave equation obtained by the ansatz and functional variable methods

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In this paper, the ansatz method and the functional variable method are employed to find new analytic solutions for the space–time nonlinear fractional wave equation, the space–time fractional Kadomtsev–Petviashvili–Benjamin–Bona–Mahony equation and the space–time fractional modified Korteweg–de Vries–Zakharov–Kuznetsov equation. As a result, some exact solutions are obtained in terms of hyperbolic and periodic functions. It is shown that the proposed methods provide a more powerful mathematical tool for constructing exact solutions for many other nonlinear fractional differential equations occurring in nonlinear physical phenomena. We have also presented the numerical simulations for these equations by means of three dimensional plots.

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Guner, O. New exact solutions to the space–time fractional nonlinear wave equation obtained by the ansatz and functional variable methods. Opt Quant Electron 50, 38 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-017-1311-1

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