Similarity Solutions for a Nonlinear Model of the Heat Equation

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The paper consists of two sections. In the first section the Lie similarity method is used to find similarity solutions of the inhomogeneous nonlinear diffusion equation in the form \[ f(x)\,\frac{\partial u(x,t)}{\partial t} = \frac{\partial}{\partial x}\,(g(x) u^nu_x^q), \] when \(\,f(x) = x^p\), \(\,g(x) = x^m\), and \(p\), \(m\) and \(q\) are arbitrary constants. In the second section the method of group-invariant solution [\textit{G. W. Bluman and J. D. Cole}, ``Similarity methods for differential equations, Springer, Berlin (1974; Zbl 0292.35001)] is applied to determine new classes of similarity reduction of the case when \(f=a^2=\text{const}\), \(g=1\) and \(n\), \(q\) are arbitrary, in addition to the previously known ones [\textit{H. Pascal}, J. Phys. A, Math. Gen. 25, No.~4, 939--948 (1992; Zbl 0755.35051)].











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