55.3.2 problem 2

Internal problem ID [13306]
Book : Handbook of exact solutions for ordinary differential equations. By Polyanin and Zaitsev. Second edition
Section : Chapter 1, section 1.2. Riccati Equation. subsection 1.2.3. Equations Containing Exponential Functions
Problem number : 2
Date solved : Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 06:38:56 AM
CAS classification : [_Riccati]

\begin{align*} y^{\prime }&=y^{2}+a \lambda \,{\mathrm e}^{\lambda x}-a^{2} {\mathrm e}^{2 \lambda x} \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.066 (sec). Leaf size: 63

ode:=diff(y(x),x) = y(x)^2+a*lambda*exp(lambda*x)-a^2*exp(2*lambda*x); 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 

\[ y = \frac {{\mathrm e}^{\lambda x} \operatorname {Ei}_{1}\left (-\frac {2 a \,{\mathrm e}^{\lambda x}}{\lambda }\right ) c_1 a +{\mathrm e}^{\frac {2 a \,{\mathrm e}^{\lambda x}}{\lambda }} c_1 \lambda +{\mathrm e}^{\lambda x} a}{\operatorname {Ei}_{1}\left (-\frac {2 a \,{\mathrm e}^{\lambda x}}{\lambda }\right ) c_1 +1} \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 1.176 (sec). Leaf size: 107

ode=D[y[x],x]==y[x]^2+a*\[Lambda]*Exp[\[Lambda]*x]-a^2*Exp[2*\[Lambda]*x]; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)&\to \frac {a e^{\lambda x} \int _1^{e^{x \lambda }}\frac {e^{\frac {2 a K[1]}{\lambda }}}{K[1]}dK[1]+\lambda \left (-e^{\frac {2 a e^{\lambda x}}{\lambda }}\right )+a c_1 e^{\lambda x}}{\int _1^{e^{x \lambda }}\frac {e^{\frac {2 a K[1]}{\lambda }}}{K[1]}dK[1]+c_1}\\ y(x)&\to a e^{\lambda x} \end{align*}

✗ Sympy

from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
a = symbols("a") 
lambda_ = symbols("lambda_") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(a**2*exp(2*lambda_*x) - a*lambda_*exp(lambda_*x) - y(x)**2 + Derivative(y(x), x),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 

NotImplementedError : The given ODE a**2*exp(2*lambda_*x) - a*lambda_*exp(lambda_*x) - y(x)**2 + Derivative(y(x), x) cannot be solved by the lie group method