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Exact Solutions of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations by the Method of Group Foliation Reduction
Stephen C. Ancoa, Sajid Alib, Thomas Wolfa a Department of Mathematics, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1 Canada
b School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences,
National University of Sciences and Technology, H-12 Campus, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan
Abstract:
A novel symmetry method for finding exact solutions to nonlinear PDEs is illustrated by applying it to
a semilinear reaction-diffusion equation in multi-dimensions. The method uses a separation ansatz to solve an equivalent first-order group foliation system whose independent and dependent variables respectively consist of the invariants and differential invariants of a given one-dimensional group of point symmetries for the reaction-diffusion equation. With this group-foliation reduction method, solutions of the reaction-diffusion equation are obtained in an explicit form, including group-invariant similarity solutions and travelling-wave solutions, as well as dynamically interesting solutions that are not invariant under any of the point symmetries admitted by this equation.
Keywords:
semilinear heat equation; similarity reduction; exact solutions; group foliation; symmetry.
Received: March 5, 2011; in final form July 3, 2011; Published online July 12, 2011
Citation:
Stephen C. Anco, Sajid Ali, Thomas Wolf, “Exact Solutions of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations by the Method of Group Foliation Reduction”, SIGMA, 7 (2011), 066, 10 pp.
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