Complex Solutions for the Fisher Equation and the Benjamin-Bona-Mahony Equation

Year 2010, Volume: 7 Issue: 2, - , 01.04.2010

Bülent Kılıç Erdal Baş

Abstract

In this article, we give direct algebraic method for the complex solutions of the
Fisher equation and Benjamin-Bona-Mahony equation. We get some complex solutions of
the Fisher equation and Benjamin-Bona-Mahony equation by this method. 

Keywords

Fisher equation, Benjamin-Bona-Mahony equation, direct algebraic method, complex solutions, traveling wave solutions

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