Multi-soliton solutions and Bäcklund transformation for a two-mode KdV equation in a fluid

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate a two-mode Korteweg-de Vries equation, which describes the one-dimensional propagation of shallow water waves with two modes in a weakly nonlinear and dispersive fluid system. With the binary Bell polynomial and an auxiliary variable, bilinear forms, multi-soliton solutions in the two-wave modes and Bell polynomial-type Bäcklund transformation for such an equation are obtained through the symbolic computation. Soliton propagation and collisions between the two solitons are presented. Based on the graphic analysis, it is shown that the increase in s can lead to the increase in the soliton velocities under the condition of , but the soliton amplitudes remain unchanged when s changes, where s means the difference between the phase velocities of two-mode waves, and are the nonlinearity parameter and dispersion parameter respectively. Elastic collisions between the two solitons in both two modes are analyzed with the help of graphic analysis.