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We apply the classical Lie method and the nonclassical method to a generalized Ostrovsky equation (GOE) and to the integrable Vakhnenko equation (VE), which Vakhnenko and Parkes proved to be equivalent to the reduced Ostrovsky equation. Using a simple nonlinear ordinary differential equation, we find that for some polynomials of velocity, the GOE has abundant exact solutions expressible in terms of Jacobi elliptic functions and consequently has many solutions in the form of periodic waves, solitary waves, compactons, etc. The nonclassical method applied to the associated potential system for the VE yields solutions that arise from neither nonclassical symmetries of the VE nor potential symmetries. Some of these equations have interesting behavior such as “nonlinear superposition.”
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Prepared from an English manuscript submitted by the authors; for the Russian version, see Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 168, No. 1, pp. 49–64, July, 2011.
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Gandarias, M.L., Bruzón, M.S. Symmetry analysis and exact solutions of some Ostrovsky equations. Theor Math Phys 168, 898–911 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11232-011-0073-3
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