Similarity solutions of the porous medium equation with sign changes (Q5905402)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 12830
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Similarity solutions of the porous medium equation with sign changes
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 12830

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    Similarity solutions of the porous medium equation with sign changes (English)
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    25 June 1992
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    We study similarity solutions with sign changes of the porous medium equation in one space dimension, \[ u_ t=(| u|^{m-1} u_ x)_ x,\quad x\in\mathbb{R},\;t>0,\tag{1} \] with \(m>1\). Here \(u\) is a function of \(x\) and \(t\). For nonnegative \(u\) eq. (1) arises in the theory of gas flow through a one-dimensional porous medium, and an extensive theory has been developed over the last decades. For the development of the theory of (1) similarity solutions play an important role. Essentially these are solutions whose profiles remain the same as \(t\) varies. The most familiar of them are the Barenblatt-Pattle solutions and the so-called dipole solutions. Our result concerns semilarity solutions of the form \(u(x,t)=t^ \alpha U(\eta)\), where \(\eta=xt^{-\beta}\), and \(\alpha\) and \(\beta\) are fixed reals. It is well-known that they have to be related by \(2\beta=(m- 1)\alpha+1\), and that \(U(\eta)\) has to satisfy the second order ordinary differential equation \[ (| U|^{m-1} U)''+m\beta\eta U'=m\alpha U. \] {}.
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    nonlinear diffusion
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    Barenblatt-Pattle solutions
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    dipole solutions
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    semilarity solutions
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