“…which can be applied in the internal solitray wave dynamics, but also can be used to describe the propagation of the weakly nonlinear waves in a composite medium. [13] Many effective methods have been proposed to analyze partial differential equations, such as Painlevé analysis, [14][15][16] symmetry group, [17][18][19] consistent Riccati expansion (CRE), [20][21][22] and so on. [23,24] To our knowledge, the CRE solvability, symmetries and cnoidal-solitary wave interaction solutions of the forced variable-coefficient extended KdV equation have not been studied.…”