Abstract
This paper suggests a universal approach to solve nonlinear periodic vibration equations by He–Laplace method, a coupling of He’s perturbation method and Laplace transform. The nonlinear periodic solitary solution of vibration equation is used as an example to elucidate the effectiveness and simplicity of the method, only few iterations are needed to obtain an extremely accurate solution.
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Introduction
The study of nonlinear differential equations is key in lot of areas such as physics, applied mathematics, engineering and other related fields. A challenging difficulty is to suggest precise analytical approximate solution in a computationally efficient manner of a strongly nonlinear differential equation. Particularly, the nonlinear periodic vibration equation has received considerable attention where the aim is to obtain analytical approximation of the nonlinear periodic vibration equations. The problem is even more challenging in the presence of a discontinuity. It is well known that the classical periodic solitary solutions of nonlinear vibration equations and Korteweg–de Vries converge to solitary-wave solutions as the period length grows unboundedly. This latter result is important in principle since most of the numerical simulations of solutions of these sorts of equations are actually performed with periodic boundary conditions, even though one is attempting to approximate solutions on the entire real axis, which arises from the dimensionless hydrodynamics equations describing the nonlinear propagation of the quantum ion-acoustic waves. With the aid of symbolic computation, many types of new analytical solutions of the nonlinear vibration equation are constructed in terms of some powerful ansatze, which include new doubly periodic wave, solitary wave, shock wave, rational wave, and singular wave solutions. The Euler–Bernoulli beam theory or linear string vibration results in a linear vibration equation. For a non-linear vibration, its governing equation can be written as
Differentiating equation (2) with respect to time results in
The above equation can be converted into the equations as shown in equation (1), which reads
This paper focuses on nonlinear periodic solutions of vibration equations using a coupling of the He’s perturbation method and Laplace transform, which was initially been proposed to solve the nonlinear vibration equations. We consider the generalized fifth-order vibration equation of the form
Many researchers studied the nonlinear vibration equations Hereman and Nuseir, 10 Hone 11 scaled the similar solution of three integrable PDEs namely KK equation, fifth-order KdV equation, and SK equation. Hu et al. 12 determined the solution of (2 + 1) dimensional KK equation. Parker13,14 obtained the N-soliton solution of SK and KK equation. Musette and Verhoeven 15 achieved the solution of fifth-order KK equations of integrable cases of Henon–Heiles system. Tam and Hu 16 found three Soliton solutions of KK-type equations using Hirota method and Mathematica. Das and Popowicz 17 studied the nonlinear dispersive fifth-order integrable equation and its hierarchy. Inc 18 determine the Soliton solution of the KK equation numerically and convergence analysis of the decomposition method. Recently, Al-Amr19–29 used the reduced differential transform to study the KK equation.
In the next section, the basic idea of Laplace transform and homotopy perturbation method is discussed. Implementation of the proposed method for the nonlinear problem is then explained. The solution of the problems is given in the subsequent section. Then convergence analysis of proposed method is discussed and conclusion is drawn in the last section.
He–Laplace method
To demonstrate the idea of He–Laplace method, assume partial differential equation which is nonlinear and non-homogeneous with initial conditions of the form
Using the differential property of Laplace transform, we have
Operating Laplace inverse transforms on both sides of equation (9) gives
and nonlinear terms can decompose as
Using He’s polynomial
substitute equations (11) and (12) in equation (10), according to He–Laplace method, a homotopy is constructed of the form
The general recursive relation is given by
Implementation of the method
Consider the generalized fifth-order nonlinear evolution equation given in equation (5) known as KK equation of the form
First, we apply the Laplace transform on both sides of equation (5)
Apply the inverse Laplace transform to both sides of equation (21) and using equation (20), we get
Now according to the homotopy perturbation method, we construct a homotopy of the form
Comparing the coefficients of like powers of
Where some of the He’s polynomial used are as follows
And so on.
Illustration of the method by numerical examples
Example
Consider
Applying the He–Laplace method to equation (42) and using equation (43), we get
Now, equating the like powers of
and so on
Numerical results obtained by the proposed method show that a reasonable approximation has been achieved with exact solution as shown in Figure 1. By the addition of more approximation terms, absolute error can be minimized. Numerical results proved the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed method. Furthermore, discretization of variables is not necessarily required for the He–Laplace method.

Representing the numerical solution of vibration equation.
Conclusion
In this manuscript, we presented the periodic solitary solutions of nonlinear vibration equations. The periodic soliton solution obtained by our method captures all the characteristics of vibrational properties that are associated with periodic solitons. We also studied the bifurcation and chaotic solutions of nonlinear wave equations, and the influence of integration constant on the periodicity of the solution of nonlinear vibration equations, which is named as bifurcation
Footnotes
Declaration of conflicting interests
The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
Funding
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Natural National Science Foundation of China under the grant no 11571140 and 11671077 and Faculty of Science, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, P. R. China..
