New abundant exact solutions for the (2 + 1)-dimensional generalized Nizhnik–Novikov–Veselov system

In this paper, the extended hyperbolic function method is used for analytic treatment of the (2 + 1)-dimensional generalized Nizhnik–Novikov–Veselov (GNNV) system. We can obtained some new explicit exact solitary wave solutions, the multiple nontrivial exact periodic travelling wave solutions, the soliton solutions and complex solutions. Some known results in the literatures can be regarded as special cases. The methods employed here can also be used to solve a large class of nonlinear evolution equations.