CONSTRUCTION OF CLOSED FORM SOLITON SOLUTIONS TO THE SPACE-TIME FRACTIONAL SYMMETRIC REGULARIZED LONG WAVE EQUATION USING TWO RELIABLE METHODS

The employment of nonlinear fractional partial differential equations (NLFPDEs) is not limited to branches of mathematics entirely but also applicable in other science fields such as biology, physics and engineering. This paper derives some solitary wave solutions for the space-time fractional symmetric regularized long wave (SRLW) equation by means of the improved [Formula: see text]-expansion approach and the [Formula: see text]-expansion method. We use the definition of the Jumarie’s modified Riemann–Liouville derivative to handle the fractional derivatives appearing in this equation. Diverse types of soliton solutions are successfully expressed on the form of rational, hyperbolic, trigonometric, and complex functions. We extract kink wave, internal solitary wave, and solitary wave solutions. The performances of the proposed methods are compared with each other. Moreover, we compare the constructed results with some published solutions. The long behaviors of the obtained solutions are plotted in 2D and 3D figures. The resulting outcomes point out that the used techniques promise to empower us to deal with more NLFPDEs arising in mathematical physics.