Interactions between Solitons and Cnoidal Periodic Waves of the Gardner Equation

The Gardner equation is one of the most important prototypic models in nonlinear physics. Many scholars pay much attention to the Gardner equation and various nonlinear excitations of the Gardner equation have been found by many methods. However, it is very difficult to find interaction solutions among different types of nonlinear excitations. In this work, with the help of the Riccati equation, the Gardner equation is solved by the consistent Riccati expansion. Furthermore, we obtain the soliton-cnoidal wave interaction solutions of the Gardner equation.