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Open Physics, vol.14, no.1, pp.88-94, 2016 (SCI-Expanded)
© 2016 Şamil Akçaǧi and Tuǧba Aydemir, published by De Gruyter Open. 2016.In this paper, firstly, we give a connection between well known and commonly used methods called the (G'/G)-expansion method and the modified extended tanh method which are often used for finding exact solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations (NPDEs). We demonstrate that giving a convenient transformation and formula, all of the solutions obtained by using the (G'/G)-expansion method can be converted the solutions obtained by using the modified extended tanh method. Secondly, contrary to the assertion in some papers, the (G'/G)-expansion method gives neither all of the solutions obtained by using the other method nor new solutions for NPDEs. Namely, while the modified extended tanh method gives more solutions in a straightforward, concise and elegant manner without reproducing a lot of different forms of the same solution. On the other hand, the (G'/G)-expansion method provides less solutions in a rather cumbersome form. Lastly, we obtain new exact solutions for the Lonngren wave equation as an illustrative example by using these methods.