A note on a symmetry analysis and exact solutions of a nonlinear fin equation

Applied Mathematics Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1356-1360

  Bokhari, A H ^a   Kara, A H ^b   Zaman, F D ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Exact solutions; Nonlinear fin equation; Similarity analysis

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SET THEORY; THEOREM PROVING; WAVE EQUATIONS;

EXACT SOLUTIONS; NONLINEAR FIN EQUATIONS; SIMILARITY ANALYSIS;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 33748290043     PISSN: 08939659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aml.2006.02.003     Document Type: Article

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