Cnoidal waves governed by the Kudryashov–Sinelshchikov equation

The evolution equation for waves propagating in a mixture of liquid and gas bubbles as proposed by Kudryashov and Sinelshchikov allows, in a special case, the propagation of solitary waves of the sech2 type. It is shown that these waves represent the solitary limit separating two families of periodic waves. One of them consists of the same cnoidal waves that are solutions of the Korteweg–de Vries equation, while the other one does not have a corresponding counterpart. It is pointed out how the ordinary differential equations governing traveling-wave solutions of the Kudryashov–Sinelshchikov and the Korteweg–de Vries equations are related to each other.