AbstractThe Korteweg–de Vries (KdV)-type equations can describe the shallow water waves, stratified internal waves, ion-acoustic waves, plasma physics and lattice dynamics, while the (2+1)-dimensional Nizhnik–Novikov–Vesselov equations are the isotropic extensions of KdV-type equations. In this paper, we investigate the (2+1)-dimensional modified Nizhnik–Novikov–Vesselov equations. By virtue of the binary Bell polynomials, bilinear forms, multi-soliton solutions and Bäcklund transformations are derived. Effects of some parameters on the solitons and monotonic function are graphically illustrated. We can observe the coalescence of the two solitons in their collision region, where their shapes change after the collision.
New multi-soliton solutions of Whitham-Broer-Kaup shallow-water-wave equations