Explicit and exact traveling wave solutions to the nonlinear LC circuit equation

Abstract

Traveling wave in a nonlinear LC circuit with dissipation have been investigated theoretically. With the aid of the extended hyperbolic function method,developed by the authors in recent works to solve nonlinear partial differential equations exactly, the fourth order nonlinear wave equation with dissipation, which models shock wave propagation in a nonlinear LC circuit, have been analytically studied. Abundant explicit and exact traveling wave solutions to the fourth order nonlinear wave equation with dissipation are obtained. These solutions include exact shock wave solutions, singular traveling wave solutions, and periodic wave solutions in a rational form of trigonometric functions.