Soliton molecules, bifurcation solitons and interaction solutions of a generalized (2 + 1)-dimensional korteweg-de vries system for the shallow-water waves

Abstract The central purpose of this paper is exploring the soliton molecules, bifurcation solitons and interaction solutions of the Korteweg–de Vries system based on the Hirota bilinear method. The studied system acts as an extension of the classic KdV system for the shallow-water waves, and is very useful to contribute in nonlinear wave phenomena. Firstly, the soliton molecules are obtained by adding resonance parameters in N-soliton. Then the interaction solutions between soliton/breather and soliton molecules are studied, as well as the interaction between two soliton molecules by using N-soliton. Moreover, a class of novel bifurcation solitons are derived, including Y-type bifurcation solitons, X-type bifurcation solitons and multiple-bifurcation solitons. In the end, the dynamic properties of soliton molecules, bifurcation solitons as well as the interaction solutions are presented graphically. The developed solutions of this research are all new and can enable us apprehend the nonlinear dynamic behaviors of the generalized (2+1)-dimensional Korteweg–de Vries system better.