Name | Order | Equation | Application | Reference |
---|
| 1 |
=fo(x)+f1(x)y+f2(x)y2+f3(x)y3
| Class of differential equation which may be solved implicitly | [1] |
Abel's differential equation of the second kind | 1 | (go(x)+g1(x)y)
=fo(x)+f1(x)y+f2(x)y2+f3(x)y3
| Class of differential equation which may be solved implicitly | |
| 1 |
| Class of differential equation which may be solved exactly | [2] |
Binomial differential equation |
|
| Class of differential equation which may sometimes be solved exactly | [3] |
Briot-Bouquet Equation | 1 |
| Class of differential equation which may sometimes be solved exactly | [4] |
Cherwell-Wright differential equation | 1 |
or the related form
| An example of a nonlinear delay differential equation; applications in number theory, distribution of primes, and control theory | [5] [6] [7] |
Chrystal's equation | 1 |
| Generalization of Clairaut's equation with a singular solution | [8] |
Clairaut's equation | 1 |
| Particular case of d'Alembert's equation which may be solved exactly | [9] |
d'Alembert's equation or Lagrange's equation | 1 | y=xf\left(
\right)+g\left(
\right)
| May be solved exactly | [10] |
Darboux equation | 1 |
=
| P(x,y)+yR(x,y) | Q(x,y)+xR(x,y) |
| Can be reduced to a Bernoulli differential equation; a general case of the Jacobi equation | [11] |
Elliptic function | 1 | y'=\sqrt{\left(1-y2\right)\left(1-k2y2\right)}
| Equation for which the elliptic functions are solutions | [12] |
Euler's differential equation | 1 |
+
| \sqrt{a0+a1y+a2y2+a3y3+a4y4 | |
} = 0 | A separable differential equation | [13] |
Euler's differential equation | 1 |
| A differential equation which may be solved with Bessel functions | |
Jacobi equation | 1 |
=
| Axy+By2+ax+by+c | Ax2+Bxy+\alphax+\betay+\gamma |
| Special case of the Darboux equation, integrable in closed form | [14] |
Loewner differential equation | 1 |
| Important in complex analysis and geometric function theory | [15] |
Logistic differential equation (sometimes known as the Verhulst model) | 2 |
| Special case of the Bernoulli differential equation; many applications including in population dynamics | [16] |
Lorenz attractor | 1 |
&=\sigma(y-x)\\
&=x(\rho-z)-y\\
&=xy-\betaz
\end{align}
| Chaos theory, dynamical systems, meteorology | [17] |
Nahm equations | 1 |
&=[T2,T
&=[T3,T
&=[T1,T2]
\end{align}
| Differential geometry, gauge theory, mathematical physics, magnetic monopoles | [18] |
Painlevé I transcendent | 2 |
| One of fifty classes of differential equation of the form
; the six Painlevé transcendents required new special functions to solve | [19] |
Painlevé II transcendent | 2 |
| One of fifty classes of differential equation of the form
; the six Painlevé transcendents required new special functions to solve | |
Painlevé III transcendent | 2 |
=t\left(
+\deltat+\betay+\alphay3+\gammaty4
| One of fifty classes of differential equation of the form
; the six Painlevé transcendents required new special functions to solve | |
Painlevé IV transcendent | 2 |
=\tfrac12\left(
\right)2+\beta+2(t2-\alpha)y2+4ty3+\tfrac32y4
| One of fifty classes of differential equation of the form
; the six Painlevé transcendents required new special functions to solve | |
Painlevé V transcendent | 2 |
\right)\left(
\left(\alphay+
\right)+\gamma
| One of fifty classes of differential equation of the form
; the six Painlevé transcendents required new special functions to solve | |
Painlevé VI transcendent | 2 |
\right)\left(
| y(y-1)(y-t) | \left(\alpha+\beta | t2(t-1)2 |
\right)\\
\end{align}
| All of the other Painlevé transcendents are degenerations of the sixth | |
Rabinovich–Fabrikant equations | 1 |
&=y(z-1+x2)+\gammax\\
&=x(3z+1-x2)+\gammay\\
&=-2z(\alpha+xy)
\end{align}
| Chaos theory, dynamical systems | [20] |
Riccati equation | 1 |
| Class of first order differential equations that is quadratic in the unknown. Can reduce to Bernoulli differential equation or linear differential equation in certain cases | [21] |
Rössler attractor | 1 | \begin{align}
&=-y-z\
&=x+ay\
&=b+z(x-c)\end{align}
| Chaos theory, dynamical systems | | |
Name | Order | Equation | Applications | Reference |
---|
Bellman's equation or Emden-Fowler's equation | 2 |
\left(t\rho
\right)=t\sigmau\rho
(Emden-Fowler) which reduces to
if
(Bellman) | Diffusion in a slab | [22] |
| 2 |
| Spherical bubble in fluid dynamics | [23] |
| 3 |
| Blasius boundary layer | [24] |
| 2 |
\left(x2
\right)+(y2-c)3/2=0
| Gravitational potential of white dwarf in astrophysics | [25] |
| 2 |
| y | ^\alpha, \ \alpha>0 | Plasma physics | [26] |
Emden–Chandrasekhar equation | 2 |
\left(\xi2
\right)=e-\psi
| Astrophysics | |
Ermakov-Pinney equation | 2 |
| Electromagnetism, oscillation, scalar field cosmologies | [27] [28] |
Falkner–Skan equation | 3 |
+y
+\beta\left[1-\left(
\right)2\right]=0
| Falkner–Skan boundary layer | [29] |
Friedmann equations | 2 |
} = -\frac\left(\rho+\frac\right) + \frac and
| Physical cosmology | [30] |
Heisenberg equation of motion | 1 |
} = \frac[\hat{\mathcal{H}}, \hat{A}] | Quantum mechanics | [31] |
Ivey's equation | 2 |
| Space charge theory | [32] |
Kidder equation | 2 | \sqrt{1-\alphay}
+2x
=0, 0\leq\alpha\leq1
| Flow through porous medium | [33] |
Krogdahl equation | 2 |
=-Q+
λQ2+
λ2Q3+
+
λ(1-λQ)\left(
\right)2+ …
| Stellar pulsation in astrophysics | [34] |
Lagerstrom equation | 2 |
| One dimensional viscous flow at low Reynolds numbers | [35] |
Lane–Emden equation or polytropic differential equation | 2 |
}\right) + \theta^n = 0 | Astrophysics | [36] |
Liñán's equation | 2 |
=(y2-\zeta2)e
| -\delta1/3(y+\gamma\zeta) | | |
| Combustion | [37] |
Pendulum equation | 2 |
| Mechanics | [38] |
Poisson–Boltzmann equation (1d case) | 2 |
| Inflammability and the theory of thermal explosions | [39] |
Stuart–Landau equation | 1 |
| A | ^2 | Hydrodynamic stability | |
Taylor–Maccoll equation | 2 | (c2-f'2)f''+c2\cot\thetaf'+(2c2-f'2)f=0, c=c(f2+f'2)
where
| Flow behind a conical shock wave | [40] |
Thomas–Fermi equation | 2 |
| Quantum mechanics[41] | [42] |
Toda lattice | 1 |
(n,t)&=a(n,t)(b(n+1,t)-b(n,t))\\
(n,t)&=2(a(n,t)2-a(n-1,t)2)
\end{align}
where \begin{align}
a(n,t)&=
{\rme}-(q(n+1,t)\\
b(n,t)&=-
p(n,t)
\end{align}
| Model of one-dimensional crystal in solid-state physics, Langmuir oscillations in plasma, quantum cohomology; notable for being a completely integrable system | | |