Name | Order | Equation | Application | Reference |
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Abel's differential equation of the first kind | 1 |  | Class of differential equation which may be solved implicitly | [1] |
Abel's differential equation of the second kind | 1 |  | Class of differential equation which may be solved implicitly | [1] |
Bernoulli equation | 1 |  | Class of differential equation which may be solved exactly | [2] |
Binomial differential equation |  |  | Class of differential equation which may sometimes be solved exactly | [3] |
Briot-Bouquet Equation | 1 |  | Class of differential equation which may sometimes be solved exactly | [4] |
Cherwell-Wright differential equation | 1 | or the related form  | An example of a nonlinear delay differential equation; applications in number theory, distribution of primes, and control theory | [5] [6] [7] |
Chrystal's equation | 1 |  | Generalization of Clairaut's equation with a singular solution | [8] |
Clairaut's equation | 1 |  | Particular case of d'Alembert's equation which may be solved exactly | [9] |
d'Alembert's equation or Lagrange's equation | 1 |  | May be solved exactly | [10] |
Darboux equation | 1 |  | A generalization of the Jacobi equation. Can be solved without quadratures, if certain amount of distinct particular solutions are found. In case and are homogenous polynomials of the same degree, this equation is either homogenous itself, or can be reduced to a Bernoulli differential equation. | [11] |
Elliptic function | 1 |  | Equation for which the elliptic functions are solutions | [12] |
Euler's differential equation | 1 |  | A separable differential equation | [13] |
Euler's differential equation | 1 |  | A differential equation which may be solved with Bessel functions | [13] |
Jacobi equation | 1 |  | Special case of the Darboux equation, integrable in closed form | [14] |
Loewner differential equation | 1 |  | Important in complex analysis and geometric function theory | [15] |
Logistic differential equation (sometimes known as the Verhulst model) | 2 |  | Special case of the Bernoulli differential equation; many applications including in population dynamics | [16] |
Lorenz attractor | 1 |  | Chaos theory, dynamical systems, meteorology | [17] |
Nahm equations | 1 |  | Differential geometry, gauge theory, mathematical physics, magnetic monopoles | [18] |
Painlevé I transcendent | 2 |  | One of fifty classes of differential equation of the form ; the six Painlevé transcendents required new special functions to solve | [19] |
Painlevé II transcendent | 2 |  | One of fifty classes of differential equation of the form ; the six Painlevé transcendents required new special functions to solve | [19] |
Painlevé III transcendent | 2 |  | One of fifty classes of differential equation of the form ; the six Painlevé transcendents required new special functions to solve | [19] |
Painlevé IV transcendent | 2 |  | One of fifty classes of differential equation of the form ; the six Painlevé transcendents required new special functions to solve | [19] |
Painlevé V transcendent | 2 |  | One of fifty classes of differential equation of the form ; the six Painlevé transcendents required new special functions to solve | [19] |
Painlevé VI transcendent | 2 |  | All of the other Painlevé transcendents are degenerations of the sixth | [19] |
Rabinovich–Fabrikant equations | 1 |  | Chaos theory, dynamical systems | [20] |
Riccati equation | 1 |  | Class of first order differential equations that is quadratic in the unknown. Can reduce to Bernoulli differential equation or linear differential equation in certain cases | [21] |
Rössler attractor | 1 |  | Chaos theory, dynamical systems | [22] |