scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1160821

Publication date 11 January 1999

explicit solution invariant subspace travelling wave

Initial value problems for second-order parabolic equations (35K15) Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) Degenerate parabolic equations (35K65)

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The authors study the Cauchy problem for the following nonlinear degerate parabolic equations with absorbtion and convection \[ u_t= (u^2)_{xx}+ \delta u^2_{x}+ u^2 \quad (x \in R^1,\;t>0), \qquad u(x,0)= u_0(x) \quad (x \in R^1), \] where \(\delta\) and \(\gamma\) are real numbers and \(u_0(x)\) is a nonnegative function. This problem is a mathematical model of a reaction-diffusion mechanism containing so-called filtration, infiltration, etc. In this paper they construct the explicit solutions in the form: \[ {\hat u}(x,t) = f(t) + g(t)v(x) + h(t)v^2(x), \] for \(v(x) = \cos(ax), \sin(ax), \cosh(ax)\) and \(\sinh(ax)\) from which a three dimensional invariant subspace of solutions can be constructed. They construct travelling wave solutions such that \(u(x,t) = f(x - ct)\), where the constant means wave velocity. In this case for \[ \frac{df}{dy} = z(f) \] they find solutions of the forms \(z = z(f) = a_n f^n + a_{n-1} f^{n-1} + \cdots + a_1 f + a_0\) with \(n=1,2,3,4\).

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