Classification of potential symmetries of generalised inhomogeneous nonlinear diffusion equations

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 320, Issue , 2003, Pages 169-183

  Sophocleous, Christodoulos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Linearisation; Nonlinear diffusion equations; Nonlocal symmetries; Similarity solutions

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; LINEARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; METALLURGY;

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 0037445340     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(02)01591-1     Document Type: Article

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