scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1510598
The authors investigate a boundary-value problem in a triangular region on the plane for the partial differential equation \[ q(x)(\partial^{2} w/\partial x^{2}+\partial^{2} w/\partial y^{2})+2\partial w/\partial x\;\partial q(x)/\partial x+ w \partial^{2} q(x)/\partial x^{2}=0, \tag{1} \] obtained by means of the substitution \(T=q(x)w(x,y)\) from the two-dimensional Laplace equation \(\partial^{2} T/\partial x^{2}+\partial^{2} T/\partial y^{2}=0\). More precisely, the boundary conditions of the form \(T=\alpha x^{n}\) on the line \(y=x\tan\Phi_{1}\) and \(T=\beta x^{n}\) on the line \(y=-x\tan\Phi_{2}\) are imposed, where \(\alpha,\beta,\Phi_{1},\Phi_{2}\) are some constants, and \(n\in\{0,1,2,3,\dots\}\). The aim is to find \(T(x,y)\) in the region, bounded by two above lines and the line \(y=x\tan\Phi_{3}+b\), \(b\neq 0\) and the flux of \(T\) across this line. The authors consider a class of linear similarity-type point transformations for \(x,y,w,q\), leaving (1) invariant. Once the relevant absolute invariants and similarity variables are found, they are used for the reduction of (1) to an ordinary differential equation. It is further shown that the specific form of boundary conditions considered turns out to be compatible with the above-mentioned reduction of (1), and thus the invariant solutions yield the solutions for certain boundary-value problems in triangular regions for (1). The explicit form of these solutions is presented. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0882.00039].
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