Symmetry vector fields and similarity solutions of a nonlinear field equation describing the relaxation to a Maxwell distribution

DOI10.1007/BF00669316zbMath0697.35141MaRDI QIDQ910967

F. M. Mahomed, Peter G. L. Leach, Willi-Hans Steeb, Norbert Euler

Publication date: 1988

Published in: International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00669316

zbMATH Keywords

ordinary differential equations; relaxation; similarity solutions; Painlevé analysis; Maxwell distribution; nonlinear field equation; Lie-Bäcklund vector fields; symmetry vector fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35Q99: Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application

37-XX: Dynamical systems and ergodic theory

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