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Exact solutions to the nonlinear equation in traffic congestion
Advances in Difference Equations volume 2020, Article number: 68 (2020)
Abstract
In this paper, the KdV-mKdV equation is obtained via the reductive perturbation method which can be applied to model the traffic flow. To overcome the shortcomings of the traditional KdV-mKdV equation, the original equation is converted into a space-time fractional equation, which is decreased to a common differential equation by using fractional complex transformation. All possible exact solutions are given through the entire discrimination gadget for polynomial method. In particular, the corresponding options are resembled for the specific parameters to show that each answer in the classification can be realized. And the numerical simulations in the paper additionally confirm this conclusion.
1 Introduction
With the socio-economic development, traffic activities are growing more rapidly. In some specific research, scholars proposed many models to describe, demonstrate and study various complex traffic phenomena [1, 2]. Researchers usually regard traffic congestion as a physical phenomenon [3–10]. However, traffic congestion often occurs in the process of traffic operation, which brings great inconvenience to people’s travel, among which the car-following model is of great significance and can be used to explain many complex physical phenomena in the traffic flow. Bando [5] proposed an OV model to depict the dynamic behavior of vehicles on a single crowded lane. However, compared with the actual data, it is found that the OV model will exhibit excessive acceleration and unrealistic deceleration. So Peng [7] et al. established the OVD model:
where \(x_{n}(t)\) represents the position of the nth car at time t, \(\frac{dx_{n}(t)}{dt}=v_{n}(t)\) represents the velocity of the nth car at time t. \(\Delta x_{n}(t)=x_{n+1}(t)-x_{n}(t)\) denotes the space headway between the preceding vehicle \({n+1}\) and the following vehicle n,and \(\Delta v_{n}(t)=v_{n+1}(t)-v_{n}(t)\) represents the velocity difference between the preceding vehicle \({n+1}\) and the following vehicle n. \({\alpha >0}\) indicates the driver’s sensitivity coefficient. λ indicates the corresponding parameter of velocity difference \(\Delta v_{n}(t)\). \(V(\Delta x_{n}(t))\) denotes an optimal velocity function. γ expresses the reaction parameter of the optimal velocity difference. From all the above we can see that formula (1) does not include the delay of driver’s response, which means the driver’s stimulation to the preceding vehicle is instantaneous.
Zhu, Dai [8] and Zheng et al. [11] have numerically studied OV site traffic models inside the unstable zone, in which they preset the periodic boundary and analyzed the long-time behavior. Results showed that printed solutions indicative of mKdV dynamics as kink-like waves appeared. Moreover, Li et al. [12] performed numerical simulations over long time intervals that described a two-lane system with periodic boundaries. This mannequin was modified into a perturbed mKdV equation next to the critical point. The numerical outcomes corresponding to this region revealed steady periodic traveling wave solutions with consistent amplitude, namely height and period. Hence, these numerical findings provide secure periodic options to the OV visitors gadget do propagate within this unstable region. Based on the above formula (1), Zhou [13] pointed out that there are three typical regions: the area beneath the impartial stability curve is not stable; the region above the coexistence curve is stable; and the region between the two is the metastable zone. The two areas can just be explained through the KdV equation [13] (metastable region) and mKdV equation [14] (unstable region). Combining KdV equation and mKdV equation, we get the KdV-mKdV equation
where μ and δ are constants.
In this paper, in order to make our traveling wave solution more universal, we transform formula (2) into the following space-time fractional equation:
Fractional calculus has a vital role in different areas of science, which has attracted increasing attention due to its nonlocal properties and effective performance on simulating anomalous diffusion, which occurs in transport dynamics in complex systems [15]. Generally, fractional calculus is recognized as one of the best ways to model anomalous diffusion, as observed in plasmas [16].
In order to obtain the exact solutions, many useful methods have been proposed such as the nonlinear steepest descent method [17], collocation method [18], direct method [19], the tanh-sech method [20], sine-cosine method [21, 22], symmetrical method [23, 24], Hirota bilinear method [25, 26], and so on. Nowadays, a powerful method named the complete discrimination system for polynomial method has been proposed to obtain the classification of single traveling wave solutions to a series of nonlinear differential equations [27–32]. To our knowledge, the case of Riccati equation is also very important, and we would study this in the future [33].
2 Basic theory
2.1 The conformal fractional derivative
According to Ref. [34, 35], the conformal fractional derivative is defined by
where \(\varGamma (x) \) is the gamma function which is defined as
There are some properties of the conformal fractional derivative
While numerical and analytical solutions are obtained, the exact traveling wave solutions to formula (3) are not all-inclusive. As far as we know, the solutions by the complete discrimination system for polynomial technique have not been studied in any other papers.
2.2 Research method
By taking the following transformation:
where κ and c represent nonzero constants. And then the nonlinear fractional partial differential equation can be converted into
According to formula (5), we set
where \(F(u)\) might be rational function, polynomial function, and any other kind of irrational function. By integrating formula (6), the integral form of the original equation is given by
where \(\theta _{0}\) is an integral constant. The main steps of this method are explained above, and many important results have been obtained via this method [24, 25, 28–31]. Also, the considered expansion is a special case of the expansion in the transformed rational function method to solve standard differential equations [36].
3 All exact solutions to space-time fractional KdV-mKdV equation
According to Ref. [37], substituting the result of (4) into formula (3) yields
By integrating formula (8) with respect to θ, we obtain
Multiplying formula (9) on both sides by \(u'\) and integrating them with respect to θ again, we get
where \(c_{0}\) and \(c_{1}\) are arbitrary integral constants. Furthermore, we can attain
Setting \(a_{4}=-\frac{\delta }{\kappa ^{2}}\), \(a_{3}=-\frac{\mu }{3 \kappa ^{2}}\), \(a_{2}=\frac{c}{\kappa ^{3}}\), \(a_{1}=\frac{2c_{0}}{ \kappa ^{3}}\), \(a_{0}=\frac{2c_{1}}{\kappa ^{3}}\), we can have
Making
hence formula (12) will be changed into
where
Then we can obtain
According to formula (14), the complete discrimination system is presented as
In order to solve formula (18), the solutions will be demonstrated in nine cases.
Case 1. \(D_{2}=0\), \(D_{3}=0\), and \(D_{4}=0\). \(\varPhi ^{2}_{ \theta _{1}}\) has a root of multiplicities four
Therefore, by using formula (18), we can get
Thus the solutions of formula (12) are expressed as follows:
For example, when \(c=1\), \(\kappa =1\), \(\mu =-6\), \(\delta =-6\), \(c_{0}=0\), \(c_{1}=0\), the solution of formula (3) is
Case 2. \(D_{2}<0\), \(D_{3}=0\), \(D_{4}=0\). \(\varPhi ^{2}_{\theta _{1}}\) has a pair of conjugate complex roots of multiplicities two:
where \(m>0\). By using formula (18), we attain
then the solution of formula (18) can be derived as
When \(r=\frac{p^{2}}{4}\), \(q=0\), \(p>0\), then \(m=\frac{p}{2}\), the solutions of formula (12) are presented as follows:
For instance, when \(c=\frac{7}{2}\), \(\kappa =1\), \(\mu =-6\), \(\delta =-6\), \(c_{0}=\frac{5}{4}\), \(c_{1}=-\frac{25}{32}\), what we attain is as follows:
Case 3. \(D_{2}>0\), \(D_{3}=0\), \(D_{4}=0\), \(E_{2}=0\). \(\varPhi ^{2}_{\theta _{1}}\) has a real root of multiplicities three and a real root of multiplicity one
Using formula (18) can yield
When \(\varPhi >m\), \(\varPhi >l\) or \(\varPhi < m\), \(\varPhi < l\), the solution of formula (18) is
Formula (32) has the rational function solution. The solution of formula (12) gotten by us is
For example, when \(c=-6\), \(\kappa =1\), \(\delta =-6\), \(\mu =-6\), \(c_{0}=-4\), \(c_{1}=-\frac{3}{2}\), the solution of formula (3) is expressed as follows:
Case 4. \(D_{2}>0\), \(D_{3}=0\), \(D_{4}=0\), \(E_{2}>0\). \(\varPhi ^{2}_{\theta _{1}}\) has two real roots of multiplicities two, namely
we have
The solution of formula (12) is given by
When \(m<\varPhi <l\), we get the solution as follows:
Similarly,
i.e., \(r=\frac{p^{2}}{4}\), \(q=0\), \(p<0\), then \(m=-\sqrt{-p}\), \(l=\sqrt{-p}\). For instance, when \(\kappa =1\), \(c=-\frac{1}{2}\), \(\delta =-6\), \(\mu =-6\), \(c_{0}=-\frac{3}{4}\), \(c_{1}=\frac{9}{32}\), and \(\varPhi >1\) or \(\varPhi <-1\), we can get
Case 5. When \(D_{4}>0\) and \(D_{2}>0\), \(D_{3}>0\),
where \(\alpha _{i}\ ( i=1,2,3,4 ) \) are real numbers and \(\alpha _{i}\) in turn decrease. If \(\varPhi >\alpha _{1}\) or \(\varPhi <\alpha _{4}\), then the transformation is as follows:
if \(\alpha _{3}<\varPhi <\alpha _{2}\), similarly
Combining formula (42) or formula (43) with formula (18), we can have
where \(m^{2}=\frac{(\alpha _{1}-\alpha _{4})(\alpha _{2}-\alpha _{3})}{( \alpha _{1}-\alpha _{3})(\alpha _{2}-\alpha _{4})}\), based on Jacobian elliptic sine function [38] and formula (45), we have
Combining formula (45) with formula (42) and (43), the solutions of formula (18) with corresponding conditions are as follows:
then we have
where \(m^{2}=\frac{(\alpha _{1}-\alpha _{4})(\alpha _{2}-\alpha _{3})}{( \alpha _{1}-\alpha _{3})(\alpha _{2}-\alpha _{4})}\). Formulas (46) and (47) are elliptic functions double periodic solutions such as, when \(c=-\frac{7}{2}\), \(\kappa =1\), \(\mu =-6\), \(\delta =-6\), \(c_{0}=- \frac{9}{4}\), \(c_{1}=\frac{45}{32}\), we have \(\alpha _{1}=2\), \(\alpha _{2}=1\), \(\alpha _{3}=-1\), \(\alpha _{4}=-2\), if \(\varPhi >\alpha _{1}\) or \(\varPhi <\alpha _{4}\), the solution obtained by us is
Case 6. When \(D_{2}D_{3}<0\) and \(D_{4}=0\), \(\varPhi ^{2}_{\theta _{1}}\) has a real root of multiplicities two and a pair of conjugate complex roots:
where m, l, and β are real numbers. According to formula (18), we have
where
and then we can get the solution of formula (12):
\(\varUpsilon (\theta )\) has a solitary wave solution. When \(c= \frac{7}{2}\), \(\kappa =1\), \(\delta =-6\), \(\mu =-6\), \(c_{0}= \frac{21}{4}\), \(c_{1}=\frac{153}{32}\), we can obtain the solution of formula (3) as follows:
Case 7. When \(D_{4}<0\) and \(D_{2}D_{3}\geq 0\), \(\varPhi ^{2}_{ \theta _{1}}\) has two distinct real roots and a pair of conjugate complex roots, then \(\varPhi ^{2}_{\theta _{1}}\) is given by
where m, l, γ, and β are real numbers, \(m>0\) and \(\beta >\gamma \). The following transformation is
where
We choose the sign of \(f_{2}\) such that \(f_{2}>0\). Combining formula (55) with formula (18), we have
where \(m_{2}^{2}=\frac{2}{1+f_{2}^{2}}\). According to formula (57) and Jacobian elliptic cosine function [38], we have
Combining formula (58) with formula (55), we can obtain the solutions of formula (18) as follows:
hence the solution of formula (12) is given by
such as, when \(c=\frac{11}{2}\), \(\kappa =1\), \(\delta =-6\), \(\mu =-6\), \(c_{0}=-\frac{9}{4}\), \(c_{1}=-\frac{47}{32}\), we have \(d_{1}=3\), \(d_{2}=d_{3}=0\), \(d_{4}=-3\), \(e_{2}=\frac{3}{4}\), \(f_{2}=2\), we can obtain the solution of formula (3):
Case 8. When \(D_{4}>0\) and \(D_{2}D_{3}\leq 0\), \(\varPhi ^{2}_{ \theta _{1}}\) has two pairs of conjugate complex roots:
where \(l_{1}\), \(l_{2}\), \(\alpha _{1}\), and \(\alpha _{2}\) are real numbers, \(l_{1}\geq l_{2}>0\). The transformation is as follows:
where
which yields
where \(m_{2}^{2}=\frac{f_{2}^{2}-1}{f_{2}^{2}}\). Based on the Jacobian elliptic function [38] and formula (63), we obtain
Combining formula (66) and formula (67) with formula (63), we have
and
where
Formula (69) is an elliptic functions double periodic solution. When \(c=11\), \(\kappa =1\), \(\delta =-6\), \(\mu =-6\), \(c_{0}=\frac{5 \sqrt{7}-10}{2}\), \(c_{1}=\frac{253-10\sqrt{7}}{8}\), we have \(\alpha _{1}=\frac{\sqrt{7}}{2}\), \(\alpha _{2}=-\frac{\sqrt{7}}{2}\), \(l_{1}=3\), \(l_{2}=2\), and \(d_{1}=\frac{7\sqrt{7}}{6}\), \(d_{2}= \frac{29}{2}\), \(d_{3}=-\frac{11}{3}\), \(d_{4}=\sqrt{7}\), \(e_{2}= \frac{5}{3}\), \(f_{2}=3\), and \(\eta =\frac{24\sqrt{23}}{23}\), then
Case 9. When \(D_{2}>0\), \(D_{3}>0\), and \(D_{4}=0\), \(\varPhi ^{2} _{\theta _{1}}\) has two single real roots and a real root with multiplicities two:
where \(\alpha _{i}\ (i=1,2,3,4)\) are real numbers, and \(\alpha _{2}>\alpha _{3}\), \(\alpha _{1}=-\frac{\alpha _{2}+\alpha _{3}}{2}\). Denoting \(h=(\alpha _{1}-\alpha _{2})(\alpha _{1}-\alpha _{3})\), when \(\varPhi >\alpha _{2}\), \(\alpha _{2}>\alpha _{1}>\alpha _{3}\), we can get the solution of formula (18) as follows:
then we can have
when \(\alpha _{1}>\alpha _{2}\) or \(\alpha _{1}<\alpha _{3}\),
we can obtain
For instance, \(\kappa =1\), \(c=-\frac{25}{2}\), \(\delta =-6\), \(\mu =6\), \(c_{0}=\frac{63}{4}\), \(c_{1}=-\frac{327}{32}\), and then
which is a solitary wave solution.
4 Numerical simulations
In this section, numerical simulations of space-time fractional KdV-mKdV equation are given. In order to see the results more intuitively, based on the solutions that we got above, different types of solutions are selected for numerical simulation, including rational function solutions to formulas (24) and (34), trigonometric functional periodic solutions to formulas (29) and (40), Jacobian elliptic functions with double periodic solutions to formulas (48), (61), and (71), solitary wave solutions to formulas (53) and (77). The properties of the solution are expressed by drawing a three-dimensional figure and the corresponding two-dimensional figure. One thing to note is that we only concentrate on the positive if there is a plus or minus sign in the selected solution.
Case 1. For \(\alpha =0.7\) (Fig. 1).
Case 2. For \(\alpha =0.7\) (Fig. 2).
Case 3. For \(\alpha =0.7\) (Fig. 3).
Case 4. For \(\alpha =0.7\) (Fig. 4).
Case 5. For \(\alpha =0.7\) (Fig. 5).
Case 6. For \(\alpha =0.7\) (Fig. 6).
Case 7. For \(\alpha =0.7\) (Fig. 7).
Case 8. For \(\alpha =0.7\) (Fig. 8).
Case 9. For \(\alpha =0.7\) (Fig. 9).
5 Conclusion
On the basis of traffic flow following theory and previous research work, this paper studies various nonlinear density wave problems of traffic flow in order to make our solutions more universal, considers space-time fractional KdV-mKdV equation. It is difficult to obtain Jacobian elliptic functions with periodic solutions by other methods. In this paper, the KdV-mKdV equation is transformed into space-time fractional equation, which is reduced to usual differential equations by using fractional complex transformation. All possible solutions are given by the complete discrimination system for polynomial method. Similar solutions have not been found in other literature, which also shows the strong role. In addition, in order to guarantee the existence of each solution, this paper sets specific parameters to get the solutions and the numerical simulation, also shows properties of the solutions.
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Li, C., Cao, D. & Du, Q. Exact solutions to the nonlinear equation in traffic congestion. Adv Differ Equ 2020, 68 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13662-020-2538-x
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