In this paper, solitary-wave ansatz and the (G ′ /G) −expansion methods have been used to obtain exact solutions of the fractional regularized long-wave (RLW) and coupled Nizhnik-Novikov-Veselov (NNV) equation. As a result, three types of exact analytical solutions such as rational function solutions, trigonometric function solutions, hyperbolic function solutions are formally derived from these equations. Proposed methods are more powerful and can be applied to other fractional differential equations arising in mathematical physics.