Exactly Solvable Nonhomogeneous Burgers Equations with Variable Coefficients

TL;DR

This paper derives explicit solutions for a nonhomogeneous Burgers equation with variable coefficients, including shock, solitary wave, and rational solutions, revealing complex behaviors like inelastic collisions and pole dynamics.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive set of exact solutions for variable coefficient Burgers equations, extending previous work with explicit formulas and analysis of collision phenomena.

Findings

Explicit solutions for generalized shock and multi-shock waves

Behavior of solutions under different damping conditions

Observation of inelastic collision phenomena

Abstract

We consider a nonhomogeneous Burgers equation with time variable coefficients, and obtain an explicit solution of the general initial value problem in terms of solution to a corresponding linear ODE. Special exact solutions such as generalized shock and multi-shock solitary waves, triangular wave, N-wave and rational type solutions are found and discussed. As exactly solvable models, we study forced Burgers equations with constant damping and an exponentially decaying diffusion coefficient. Different type of exact solutions are obtained for the critical, over and under damping cases, and their behavior is illustrated explicitly. In particular, the existence of inelastic type of collisions is observed by constructing multi-shock solitary wave solutions, and for the rational type solutions the motion of the pole singularities is described.