@misc{AncoAliWolf2011, author = {Anco, Stephen and Ali, Sajid and Wolf, Thomas}, title = {Exact solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations by the method of group foliation reduction}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-13171}, number = {11-25}, year = {2011}, abstract = {A novel symmetry method for finding exact solutions to nonlinear PDEs is illustrated by applying it to a semilinear reaction-diffusion equation in multi-dimensions. The method is based on group foliation reduction and employs a separation ansatz to solve an equivalent first-order group foliation system whose independent and dependent variables respectively consist of the invariants and differential invariants of a given one-dimensional group of point symmetries for the reaction-diffusion equation. With this method, solutions of the reaction-diffusion equation are obtained in an explicit form, including group-invariant similarity solutions and travelling-wave solutions, as well as dynamically interesting solutions that are not invariant under any of the point symmetries admitted by this equation.}, language = {en} } @misc{AncoAliWolf2011, author = {Anco, Stephen and Ali, Sajid and Wolf, Thomas}, title = {Symmetry analysis and exact solutions of semilinear heat flow in multi-dimensions}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-13213}, number = {11-26}, year = {2011}, abstract = {A symmetry group method is used to obtain exact solutions for a semilinear radial heat equation in \$n\>1\$ dimensions with a general power nonlinearity. The method involves an ansatz technique to solve an equivalent first-order PDE system of similarity variables given by group foliations of this heat equation, using its admitted group of scaling symmetries. This technique yields explicit similarity solutions as well as other explicit solutions of a more general (non-similarity) form having interesting analytical behavior connected with blow up and dispersion. In contrast, standard similarity reduction of this heat equation gives a semilinear ODE that cannot be explicitly solved by familiar integration techniques such as point symmetry reduction or integrating factors.}, language = {en} } @misc{EulerEulerWolf2012, author = {Euler, Marianna and Euler, Norbert and Wolf, Thomas}, title = {The Two-Component Camassa-Holm Equations CH(2,1) and CH(2,2): First-Order Integrating Factors and Conservation Laws}, issn = {1438-0064}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-16087}, year = {2012}, abstract = {Recently, Holm and Ivanov, proposed and studied a class of multi-component generalisations of the Camassa-Holm equations [D D Holm and R I Ivanov, Multi-component generalizations of the CH equation: geometrical aspects, peakons and numerical examples, {\it J. Phys A: Math. Theor} {\bf 43}, 492001 (20pp), 2010]. We consider two of those systems, denoted by Holm and Ivanov by CH(2,1) and CH(2,2), and report a class of integrating factors and its corresponding conservation laws for these two systems. In particular, we obtain the complete sent of first-order integrating factors for the systems in Cauchy-Kovalevskaya form and evaluate the corresponding sets of conservation laws for CH(2,1) and CH(2,2).}, language = {en} } @misc{AncoMacNaughtonWolf2012, author = {Anco, Stephen and MacNaughton, Steven A. and Wolf, Thomas}, title = {Conservation laws and symmetries of quasilinear radial wave equations in multi-dimensions}, issn = {1438-0064}, arxiv = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.1719}, doi = {10.1063/1.4711814}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-16111}, year = {2012}, abstract = {Symmetries and conservation laws are studied for two classes of physically and analytically interesting radial wave equations with power nonlinearities in multi-dimensions. The results consist of two main classifications: all symmetries of point type and all conservation laws of a general energy-momentum type are explicitly determined, including those such as dilations, inversions, similarity energies and conformal energies that exist only for special powers or dimensions. In particular, all variational cases (when a Lagrangian formulation exists) and non-variational cases (when no Lagrangian exists) for these wave equations are considered. As main results, the classification yields generalized energies and radial momenta in certain non-variational cases, which are shown to arise from a new type of Morawetz dilation identity that produces conservation laws for each of the two classes of wave equations in a different way than Noether's theorem.}, language = {en} } @misc{AncoMohiuddinWolf2012, author = {Anco, Stephen and Mohiuddin, Mohammad and Wolf, Thomas}, title = {Travelling waves and conservation laws for complex mKdV-type equations}, issn = {1438-0064}, arxiv = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.2403}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-16124}, year = {2012}, abstract = {Travelling waves and conservation laws are studied for a wide class of \$U(1)\$-invariant complex mKdV equations containing the two known integrable generalizations of the ordinary (real) mKdV equation. The main results on travelling waves include deriving new complex solitary waves and kinks that generalize the well-known mKdV \$\sech\$ and \$\tanh\$ solutions. The main results on conservation laws consist of explicitly finding all 1st order conserved densities that yield phase-invariant counterparts of the well-known mKdV conserved densities for momentum, energy, and Galilean energy, and a new conserved density describing the angular twist of complex kink solutions.}, language = {en} }