id: 02217583 dt: j an: 02217583 au: Chen, Yong; Yu, Zheng ti: Generalized extended tanh-function method to construct new explicit exact solutions for the approximate equations for long water waves. so: Int. J. Mod. Phys. C 14, No. 5, 601-611 (2003). py: 2003 pu: World Scientific, Singapore la: EN cc: ut: symbolic computation; Riccati equation; solitary wave ci: li: doi:10.1142/S0129183103004760 ab: Summary: A generalized extended tanh-function method for constructing exact solutions of nonlinear evolution equations is presented and implemented in a computer algebraic system. Applying the generalized method, with the aid of Maple, we consider the system of the approximate equations for long water waves and find the new more general explicit exact solutions. The properties of the new solitary wave solutions are shown by some figures. rv: