Symmetries and form-preserving transformations of generalised inhomogeneous nonlinear diffusion equations

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 324, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 509-529

  Sophocleous, Christodoulos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Form preserving transformations; Local and nonlocal symmetries; Nonlinear diffusion equations

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

FORM-PRESERVING TRANSFORMATIONS;

DIFFUSION;

EID: 0038147094     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(03)00063-3     Document Type: Article

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