ELASTIC TRANSFORMATION AND ITS INVERSE TRANSFORMATION FOR SOLVING FIRST- AND THIRD-ORDER NONLINEAR VARIABLE COEFFICIENT ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

Abstract

Here elastic transformation and its inverse transformation are used to solve two kinds of first- and third-order nonlinear ordinary differential equations (ODEs) with variable coefficients. First, elastic transformations are used to upgrade and reduce the first- and third-order nonlinear ODEs to a class of second-order linear homogeneous ODEs. Then the general solutions of the first- and third-order ODEs are obtained separately by using the general solution of the obtained second-order linear homogeneous ODEs, elastic transformation, inverse transformation of elastic transformation and related operation rules. Second, the steps for solving these two kinds of ODEs are summarized. Finally, examples and parametric analysis are given to prove that it is effective, simple and feasible to solve two kinds of first- and third-order nonlinear ODEs by elastic transformation and its inverse transformation. Elastic transformation and its inverse transformation provide a new method for solving ODEs. The research in this paper expands the solvable classes of ODEs.