A new algebraic method for finding the line soliton solutions and doubly periodic wave solution to a two-dimensional perturbed KdV equation

A new algebraic method is devised to obtain a series of exact solutions for general nonlinear equations. Compared with the most existing tanh methods, the proposed method gives new and more general solutions. More importantly, the method provides a guideline to classify the various types of the solution according to some parameters. For illustration, we apply the method to solve a new two-dimensional perturbed KdV equation and successfully construct the various kind of exact solutions including line soliton solutions, rational solutions, triangular periodic solutions, Jacobi, and Weierstrass doubly periodic solutions. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.