Continuous and Discrete Transformations of a One-Dimensional Porous Medium Equation

DOI10.2991/JNMP.1999.6.4.1MaRDI QIDQ4498273zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christodoulos Sophocleous

Publication date 15 August 2000

Published in Journal of Nonlinear Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9910189, http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1008.7505

zbMATH Keywords

discrete transformationsLie point symmetriesone-dimensional porous medium equationpoint transformations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric theory, characteristics, transformations in context of PDEs (35A30) Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Symmetry analysis, Lie group and Lie algebra methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M60) Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage (76S05)

Abstract: We consider the one-dimensional porous medium equation $u_t=left(u^n{u}_{x}ight{)}_x+fracmux{u}^n{u}_x$. We derive point transformations of a general class that map this equation into itself or into equations of a similar class. In some cases this porous medium equation is connected with well known equations. With the introduction of a new dependent variable this partial differential equation can be equivalently written as a system of two equations. Point transformations are also sought for this auxiliary system. It turns out that in addition to the continuous point transformations that may be derived by Lie's method, a number of discrete transformations are obtained. In some cases the point transformations which are presented here for the single equation and for the auxiliary system form cyclic groups of finite order.

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