Comparison of different approaches to conservation laws for some partial differential equations in fluid mechanics

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 205, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 212-230

  Naz, R ^a   Mahomed, F M ^a   Mason, D P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Characteristic method; Conservation laws; Direct construction formula approach; Direct method; Noether approach for the system and its adjoint; Noether's theorem; Partial Noether approach; Symmetry conditions; Variational approach for arbitrary functions and on the solution space

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONTACTS (FLUID MECHANICS); DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FLUID MECHANICS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MECHANICS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

CHARACTERISTIC METHOD; CONSERVATION LAWS; DIRECT CONSTRUCTION FORMULA APPROACH; DIRECT METHOD; NOETHER APPROACH FOR THE SYSTEM AND ITS ADJOINT; NOETHER'S THEOREM; PARTIAL NOETHER APPROACH; SYMMETRY CONDITIONS; VARIATIONAL APPROACH FOR ARBITRARY FUNCTIONS AND ON THE SOLUTION SPACE;

PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 54049148104     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2008.06.042     Document Type: Review

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