Travelling wave and similarity solutions to nonlinear evolution type equations through inverse variational and symmetry methods Original Research Article

Shallow water equations are usually modelled by nonlinear KdV type equations of which various generalisations now exist. For example there are vector versions of the modified KdV equation and shallow water equations with nonlinear internal waves. We discuss the reduction and solutions of these and other large classes of such type of equations using inverse variational and symmetry methods.