Fractional Consistent Riccati Expansion Method and Soliton-Cnoidal Solutions for the Time-Fractional Extended Shallow Water Wave Equation in (2 + 1)-Dimension

In this work, a fractional consistent Riccati expansion (FCRE) method is proposed to seek soliton and soliton-cnoidal solutions for fractional nonlinear evolutional equations. The method is illustrated by the time-fractional extended shallow water wave equation in the (2 + 1)-dimension, which includes a lot of KdV-type equations as particular cases, such as the KdV equation, potential KdV equation, Boiti–Leon–Manna–Pempinelli (BLMP) equation, and so on. A rich variety of exact solutions, including soliton solutions, soliton-cnoidal solutions, and three-wave interaction solutions, have been obtained. Comparing with the fractional sub-equation method, G′/G-expansion method, and exp-function method, the proposed method gives new results. The method presented here can also be applied to other fractional nonlinear evolutional equations.