2.26.3 Problem 3

2.26.3.1 Maple
2.26.3.2 Mathematica
2.26.3.3 Sympy

Internal problem ID [13639]
Book : Handbook of exact solutions for ordinary differential equations. By Polyanin and Zaitsev. Second edition
Section : Chapter 1, section 1.4. Equations Containing Polynomial Functions of y. subsection 1.4.1-2 Abel equations of the first kind.
Problem number : 3
Date solved : Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:47:50 AM
CAS classification : [_Abel]

\begin{align*} y^{\prime }&=-y^{3}+\left (x a +b \right ) y^{2} \\ \end{align*}
Unknown ode type.
2.26.3.1 Maple. Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 241
ode:=diff(y(x),x) = -y(x)^3+(a*x+b)*y(x)^2; 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 
\[ \frac {\left (-a^{2}\right )^{{1}/{3}} \left (a x +b \right ) \left (\operatorname {AiryBi}\left (-\frac {\left (y \left (a x +b \right )^{2}+2 a \right ) 2^{{2}/{3}}}{4 \left (-a^{2}\right )^{{1}/{3}} y}\right ) c_1 +\operatorname {AiryAi}\left (-\frac {\left (y \left (a x +b \right )^{2}+2 a \right ) 2^{{2}/{3}}}{4 \left (-a^{2}\right )^{{1}/{3}} y}\right )\right ) 2^{{1}/{3}}+2 \left (\operatorname {AiryBi}\left (1, -\frac {\left (y \left (a x +b \right )^{2}+2 a \right ) 2^{{2}/{3}}}{4 \left (-a^{2}\right )^{{1}/{3}} y}\right ) c_1 +\operatorname {AiryAi}\left (1, -\frac {\left (y \left (a x +b \right )^{2}+2 a \right ) 2^{{2}/{3}}}{4 \left (-a^{2}\right )^{{1}/{3}} y}\right )\right ) a}{2^{{1}/{3}} \left (a x +b \right ) \left (-a^{2}\right )^{{1}/{3}} \operatorname {AiryBi}\left (-\frac {\left (y \left (a x +b \right )^{2}+2 a \right ) 2^{{2}/{3}}}{4 \left (-a^{2}\right )^{{1}/{3}} y}\right )+2 \operatorname {AiryBi}\left (1, -\frac {\left (y \left (a x +b \right )^{2}+2 a \right ) 2^{{2}/{3}}}{4 \left (-a^{2}\right )^{{1}/{3}} y}\right ) a} = 0 \]

Maple trace

Methods for first order ODEs: 
--- Trying classification methods --- 
trying a quadrature 
trying 1st order linear 
trying Bernoulli 
trying separable 
trying inverse linear 
trying homogeneous types: 
trying Chini 
differential order: 1; looking for linear symmetries 
trying exact 
trying Abel 
<- Abel successful
 

Maple step by step

\[ \begin {array}{lll} & {} & \textrm {Let's solve}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & \frac {d}{d x}y \left (x \right )=-y \left (x \right )^{3}+\left (a x +b \right ) y \left (x \right )^{2} \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Highest derivative means the order of the ODE is}\hspace {3pt} 1 \\ {} & {} & \frac {d}{d x}y \left (x \right ) \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Solve for the highest derivative}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & \frac {d}{d x}y \left (x \right )=-y \left (x \right )^{3}+\left (a x +b \right ) y \left (x \right )^{2} \end {array} \]
2.26.3.2 Mathematica. Time used: 0.394 (sec). Leaf size: 223
ode=D[y[x],x]==-y[x]^3+(a*x+b)*y[x]^2; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 
\[ \text {Solve}\left [\frac {\operatorname {AiryAiPrime}\left (-\frac {\sqrt [3]{-\frac {1}{2}} (b+a x)^2}{2 a^{2/3}}-\frac {\sqrt [3]{-\frac {1}{2}} \sqrt [3]{a}}{y(x)}\right )-\frac {\left (-\frac {1}{2}\right )^{2/3} (a x+b) \operatorname {AiryAi}\left (-\frac {\sqrt [3]{-\frac {1}{2}} (b+a x)^2}{2 a^{2/3}}-\frac {\sqrt [3]{-\frac {1}{2}} \sqrt [3]{a}}{y(x)}\right )}{\sqrt [3]{a}}}{\operatorname {AiryBiPrime}\left (-\frac {\sqrt [3]{-\frac {1}{2}} (b+a x)^2}{2 a^{2/3}}-\frac {\sqrt [3]{-\frac {1}{2}} \sqrt [3]{a}}{y(x)}\right )-\frac {\left (-\frac {1}{2}\right )^{2/3} (a x+b) \operatorname {AiryBi}\left (-\frac {\sqrt [3]{-\frac {1}{2}} (b+a x)^2}{2 a^{2/3}}-\frac {\sqrt [3]{-\frac {1}{2}} \sqrt [3]{a}}{y(x)}\right )}{\sqrt [3]{a}}}+c_1=0,y(x)\right ] \]
2.26.3.3 Sympy
from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
a = symbols("a") 
b = symbols("b") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq((-a*x - b)*y(x)**2 + y(x)**3 + Derivative(y(x), x),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 
RecursionError : maximum recursion depth exceeded