Similarity reductions and exact solutions for the two-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations

Studies in Applied Mathematics

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 183-240

  Ludlow, David K ^b   Clarkson, Peter A ^a   Bassom, Andrew P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIE GROUPS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; VISCOUS FLOW;

% REDUCTIONS; DIRECT METHOD; EXACT SOLUTION; INCOMPRESSIBLE (NAVIER )STOKES EQUATION; INCOMPRESSIBLE NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; KRUSKAL; SIMILARITY REDUCTIONS; STREAMFUNCTIONS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL;

ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 0040121940     PISSN: 00222526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9590.00125     Document Type: Article

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