On the isovectors of a class of nonlinear diffusion equations

DOI10.1016/0020-7225(86)90134-5MaRDI QIDQ580114zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kashmiri L. Chowdhury

Publication date 1986

Published in International Journal of Engineering Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0020-7225(86)90134-5

zbMATH Keywords

class of nonlinear diffusion equationsexact solutionexterior differential formsinitially cool infinite mediainvariant group of transformationsisovector fieldLie's derivative

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Diffusion (76R50)

Review text

A class of nonlinear diffusion equations is expressed in terms of an ideal of exterior differential forms. The components of the associated isovector field are constructed by using its transport property under Lie's derivative. The solution of the corresponding orbital equations generate an invariant group of transformations which reduce the nonlinear diffusion equation to an ordinary differential equation. For the problem of heat propagation, in an initially cool infinite media, due to a plane source, an exact solution is derived.

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