Abstract
By using the truncated Painlevé analysis and the generalized tanh function expansion approaches, many interaction solutions among solitons and other types of nonlinear excitations of the Konopelchenko—Dubrovsky (KD) equation can be obtained. Particularly, the soliton-cnoidal wave interaction solutions are studied by means of the Jacobi elliptic functions and the third type of incomplete elliptic integrals.