A new method for constructing soliton solutions and periodic solutions of nonlinear evolution equations

With the aid of the symbolic computation, we improve Xie's algorithm [F. Xie, Z.Y. Yan, H. Zhang, Phys. Lett. A 285 (2001) 76], and present a new extended method. Based on the new general ansatz (3), we successfully solve a compound KdV–MKdV equation, and obtain some special solutions which contain soliton solutions, and periodic solutions. The method can also be applied to other nonlinear partial differential equations.