On Lie symmetries and soliton solutions of $$$$-dimensional Bogoyavlenskii equations

The present article is devoted to find some invariant solutions of the \((2+1)\)-dimensional Bogoyavlenskii equations using similarity transformations method. The system describes \((2+1)\)-dimensional interaction of a Riemann wave propagating along y-axis with a long wave along x-axis. All possible vector fields, commutative relations and symmetry reductions are obtained by using invariance property of Lie group. Meanwhile, the method reduces the number of independent variables by one, which leads to the reduction of Bogoyavlenskii equations into a system of ordinary differential equations. The system so obtained is solved under some parametric restrictions and provides invariant solutions. The derived solutions are much efficient to explain the several physical properties depending upon various existing arbitrary constants and functions. Moreover, some of them are more general than previously established results (Peng and Shen in Pramana 67:449–456, 2006; Malik et al. in Comput Math Appl 64:2850–2859, 2012; Zahran and Khater in Appl Math Model 40:1769–1775, 2016; Zayed and Al-Nowehy in Opt Quant Electron 49(359):1–23, 2017). In order to provide rich physical structures, the solutions are supplemented by numerical simulation, which yield some positons, negatons, kinks, wavefront, multisoliton and asymptotic nature.     

Symmetry properties of a nonlinear acoustics model

We give a classification into conjugacy classes of subalgebras of the symmetry algebra generated by the Zabolotskaya–Khokhlov equation, and obtain all similarity reductions of this equation into (1+1)-dimensional equations. We thus show that the Lie classical reduction approach may also give rise to more general reduced equations as those expected from the direct method of Clarkson and Kruskal. By transforming the determining system for the similarity variables into the equivalent adjoint system of total differential equations, similarity reductions to odes which are independent of the three arbitrary functions defining the symmetries are also obtained. These results are again compared with those obtained by the direct method of Clarkson and Kruskal, by finding in particular equivalence transformations mapping some of the reduced equations to each other. Various families of new exact solutions are also derived.     

Exact solutions of equations of rotationally symmetric motion of an ideal incompressible liquid

A partially invariant solution of the Euler equations is considered, where the vertical component of velocity is a function of the vertical coordinate and time, whereas the remaining components of velocity and pressure are independent of the polar angle in a cylindrical coordinate system. Using the classification of equations obtained by analysis of an overdetermined system, we consider two hyperbolic systems: the first one describes the motion of a cylindrical layer of an ideal incompressible liquid under a punch, and the second system allows obtaining solutions in a halfcylinder with singularities at the axis of symmetry. A class of new exact solutions is obtained, which describe vortex motion of an ideal incompressible liquid, including the motion with singularities (sources of vortices) located along the axis of symmetry.     

Biorthogonal stretching and shearing of an impermeable surface in a uniformly rotating fluid system

The flow induced by an impermeable flat surface executing orthogonal stretching and orthogonal shearing in a rotating fluid system is investigated. Both the stretching and shearing are linear in the coordinates. An exact similarity reduction of the Navier–Stokes equations gives rise to a pair of nonlinearly-coupled ordinary differential equations governed by three parameters. In this study we set one parameter and analyze the problem which leads to flow for an impermeable surface with shearing and stretching due to velocity u along the x-axis of equal strength a while the shearing and stretching due to velocity v along the y-axis of equal strength b. These solutions depend on two parameters—a Coriolis (rotation) parameter \(\sigma = \Omega /a\) and a stretching/shearing ratio \(\lambda =b/a\). A symmetry in solutions is found for \(\lambda = 1\). The exact solution for \(\sigma = 0\) and the asymptotic behavior of solutions for \(|\sigma | \rightarrow \infty\) are determined and compared with numerical results. Oscillatory solutions are found whose strength increases with increasing values of \(|\sigma |\). It is shown that these solutions tend to the well-known Ekman solution as \(|\sigma | \rightarrow \infty\).     

On some new exact solutions of incompressible steady state Navier-Stokes equations

In the present work, Lie symmetries are constructed for the steady state incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in two dimensional space. The Navier-Stokes equations are transformed into a fourth order quasilinear partial differential equation through well known approach of stream function. Seven similarity solutions are obtained using one-parameter Lie group of transformations with commuting infinitesimal operators. Among the seven solutions so obtained, three are new and analysed physically. Also, the remaining four solutions are reported in Polyanin and Zaitsev (Handbook of nonlinear partial differential equations, Chapman and Hall/CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp. 607–608, 2004) and interpreted hydrostatically.     

Exact similarity and traveling wave solutions to an integrable evolution equation for surface waves in deep water

In this paper, the Lie symmetry analysis and the dynamical system method are performed on an integrable evolution equation for surface waves in deep water

$$\begin{aligned} 2\sqrt{\frac{k}{g}}u_{xxt}=k^2u_x-\frac{3}{2}k(uu_x)_{xx}. \end{aligned}$$

All of the geometric vector fields of the equation are presented, as well as some exact similarity solutions with an arbitrary function of t are obtained by using a special symmetry reduction and the dynamical system method. Different kinds of traveling wave solutions also be found by selecting the function appropriately.

     

Elastic bodies reinforced with inextensible surfaces

The constraint of in-plane rigidity is examined within the general framework of the theory of internally constrained materials. It is shown that, for in-plane rigid materials, local strain and active stress are both defined by vectorial quantities. Representation formulae for the elastic response mapping are established in the cases of transverse isotropy and maximal symmetry, compatible with the constraint manifold. The equilibrium problem for an elastic body reinforced with parallel inextensible planes is also considered. In particular, universal solutions for bodies with maximal material symmetry are determined within the class of deformations which leave rigid every reinforcing plane.     

Spatial Stationary Long Waves in Shear Flows

The system of integrodifferential equations describing the spatial stationary freeboundary shear flows of an ideal fluid in the shallowwater approximation is considered. The generalized characteristics of the model are found and the hyperbolicity conditions are formulated. A new class of exact solutions of the governing equations is obtained which is characterized by a special dependence of the desired functions on the vertical coordinate. The system of equations describing this class of solutions in the hyperbolic case is reduced to Riemann invariants. New exact solutions of the equations of motion are found.     

Existence and Non-linear Stability of Rotating Star Solutions of the Compressible Euler–Poisson Equations

We prove the existence of rotating star solutions which are steady-state solutions of the compressible isentropic Euler–Poisson (Euler–Poisson) equations in three spatial dimensions with prescribed angular momentum and total mass. This problem can be formulated as a variational problem of finding a minimizer of an energy functional in a broader class of functions having less symmetry than those functions considered in the classical Auchmuty–Beals paper. We prove the non-linear dynamical stability of these solutions with perturbations having the same total mass and symmetry as the rotating star solution. We also prove finite time stability of solutions where the perturbations are entropy-weak solutions of the Euler–Poisson equations. Finally, we give a uniform (in time) a priori estimate for entropy-weak solutions of the Euler–Poisson equations.     

Lie symmetry analysis and invariant solutions of $$\varvec{}$$-dimensional Calogero–Bogoyavlenskii–Schiff equation

Lie group analysis is applied to carry out the similarity reductions of the \((3+1)\)-dimensional Calogero–Bogoyavlenskii–Schiff (CBS) equation. We obtain generators of infinitesimal transformations of the CBS equation and each of these generators depend on various parameters which give us a set of Lie algebras. For each of these Lie algebras, Lie symmetry method reduces the \((3+1)\)-dimensional CBS equation into a new \((2+1)\)-dimensional partial differential equation and to an ordinary differential equation. In addition, we obtain commutator table of Lie brackets and symmetry groups for the CBS equation. Finally, we obtain closed-form solutions of the CBS equation by using the invariance property of Lie group transformations.     

A remark on similarity analysis of boundary layer equations of a class of non-Newtonian fluids

A similarity analysis of three-dimensional boundary layer equations of a class of non-Newtonian fluid in which the stress, an arbitrary function of rates of strain, is studied. It is shown that under any group of transformation, for an arbitrary stress function, not all non-Newtonian fluids possess a similarity solution for the flow past a wedge inclined at arbitrary angle except Ostwald-de-Waele power-law fluid. Further it is observed, for non-Newtonian fluids of any model only $90°$ of wedge flow leads to similarity solutions. Our results contain a correction to some flaws in Pakdemirli׳s [14] (1994) paper on similarity analysis of boundary layer equations of a class of non-Newtonian fluids.     

Group-invariant solutions of kinetic equations

In the development of analytic methods of solution of kinetic equations, it is expedient to use group raetliods. The establishment of a symmetry group makes it possible to justify the choice of a definite model of kinetic equation corresponding to the physical formulation of the problem, to solve the Cauchy problem in a number of cases, and to obtain classes of new exact solutions that can be used as standards in the construction of numerical algorithms for solving kinetic equations. Bobylev [1–4] and Krook and Wu [5, 6] used group methods to analyze the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation in the case of isotropy with respect to the velocities and Maxwellian molecules. They obtained exact solutions and investigated the asymptotic behavior of the main equation. In the present paper, group methods are used to find and analyze exact solutions of the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook kinetic equation, which successfully simulates the basic properties of the Boltzmann equation. Conclusions are drawn about the symmetries of the Boltzmann equation. To simplify the calculations, the exposition is presented for the case of the one-dimensional Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook equation with constant effective collision frequency.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 4, pp. 135–140, July–August, 1982.     

Coherent structure of Alice–Bob modified Korteweg de-Vries equation

To describe two-place events, Alice–Bob systems have been established by means of the shifted parity and delayed time reversal in the preprint arXiv:1603.03975v2 [nlin.SI], (2016). In this paper, we mainly study exact solutions of the integrable Alice–Bob modified Korteweg de-Vries (AB-mKdV) system. The general Nth Darboux transformation for the AB-mKdV equation is constructed. By using the Darboux transformation, some types of shifted parity and time reversal symmetry breaking solutions including one-soliton, two-soliton, and rogue wave solutions are explicitly obtained. In addition to the similar solutions of the mKdV equation (group invariant solutions), there are abundant new localized structures for the AB-mKdV systems.     

The initial-value problem for elastodynamics of incompressible bodies

We prove short-time well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for incompressible strongly elliptic hyperelastic materials. Our method consists in:

1. Reformulating the classical equations in order to solve for the pressure gradient (The pressure is the Lagrange multiplier corresponding to the constraint of incompressibility.) This formulation uses both spatial and material variables.
2. Solving the reformulated equations by using techniques which are common for symmetric hyperbolic systems. These are:

1. Using energy estimates to bound the growth of various Sobolev norms of solutions.
2. Finding the solution as the limit of a sequence of solutions of linearized problems.

Our equations differ from hyperbolic systems, however, in that the pressure gradient is a spatially non-local function of the position and velocity variables.     

End effects for plane deformations of an elastic anisotropic semi-infinite strip

In the linear theory of elasticity, Saint-Venant's principle is used to justify the neglect of edge effects when determining stresses in a body. For isotropic materials, the validity of this is well established. However for anisotropic and composite materials, experimental results have shown that edge effects may persist much farther into the material than for isotropic materials and as a result cannot be neglected. This paper further examines the effects of material anisotropy on the exponential decay rate for stresses in a semi-infinite elastic strip. A linearly elastic semi-infinite strip in a state of plane stress/strain subject to a self-equilibrated end load is considered first for a specially orthotropic material and then for the general anisotropic material. The problem is governed by a fourth-order elliptic partial differential equation with constant coefficients. In the former case, just a single dimensionless material parameter appears, while in the latter, only three dimensionless parameters are required. Energy methods are used to establish lower bounds on the actual stress decay rate. Both analytic and numerical estimates are obtained in terms of the elastic constants of the material and results are shown for several contemporary engineering materials. When compared with the exact stress decay rate computed numerically from the eigenvalues of a fourth-order ordinary differential equation, the results in some cases show a high degree of accuracy. In particular, for strongly orthotropic materials, an asymptotic estimate provides extremely accurate estimates for the decay rate. Results of the type obtained here have several important practical applications. For example, they provide physical insight into the mechanical testing of anisotropic and laminated composite structures (including the off-axis tension test), are useful in assessing the influence of fasteners, joints, etc. on the behavior of composite structures and allow for tailoring a material with specific properties to ensure that local stresses attenuate at a desired rate.     

A family of solutions describing plane strain cylindrical inflation in finite compressible elasticity

Within the context of finite, compressible, isotropic elasticity, a family of solutions describing plane strain cylindrical inflation of cylindrical shells is obtained for a class of materials that includes both the harmonic and Varga materials. Additionally it is shown that the class of materials chsen is the largest class of materials for which the family of solutions is possible.     

Nonlocal symmetry and similarity reductions for a $$\varvec{}$$-dimensional Korteweg–de Vries equation

Based on the Lax pair, the nonlocal symmetries to \((2+1)\)-dimensional Korteweg–de Vries equation are investigated, which are also constructed by the truncated Painlevé expansion method. Through introducing some internal spectrum parameters, infinitely many nonlocal symmetries are given. By choosing four suitable auxiliary variables, nonlocal symmetries are localized to a closed prolonged system. Via solving the initial-value problems, the finite symmetry transformations are obtained to generate new solutions. Moreover, rich explicit interaction solutions are presented by similarity reductions. In particular, bright soliton, dark soliton, bell-typed soliton and soliton interacting with elliptic solutions are found. Through computer numerical simulation, the dynamical phenomena of these interaction solutions are displayed in graphical way, which show meaningful structures.     

Existence of self-similar solutions in reacting gases

In this paper, the Lie group theoretical method is used to establish the entire class of self-similar solutions to the problem of shock wave propagation through reacting polytropic gases with the same $\gamma $ -law. The system consists of two species, burnt gas and unburnt gas. Necessary conditions for the existence of similarity solutions for shocks of arbitrary strength as well as for strong shocks are obtained. The arbitrary constants, occurring in the expressions of the infinitesimals of Lie group of transformations give rise to different cases of possible solutions with a power law, exponential and logarithmic shock paths. For the existence of self-similar solutions, the forms of reaction rate are found out in different cases. A particular solution is considered to study the effect of reaction rate on the similarity exponent.     

Consequences of the Translation Invariance on the Darcy Free Convection Flow Past a Vertical Surface

It is shown that the governing equation for the stream function of the Darcy free convection boundary layer flows past a vertical surface is invariant under arbitrary translations of the transverse coordinate y. The consequences of this basic symmetry property on the solutions corresponding to a prescribed surface temperature distribution T _w (x) are investigated. It is found that starting with a “primary solution” which describes the temperature boundary layer on an impermeable surface, infinitely many “translated solutions” can be generated which form a continuous group, the “translation group” of the given primary solution. The elements of this group describe free convection boundary layer flows from permeable counterparts of the original surface with a transformed temperature distribution \({\tilde {T}_w \left( x \right)}\), when simultaneously a suitable lateral suction/injection of the fluid is applied. It turns out in this way that several exact solutions discovered during the latter few decades are in fact not basically new solutions, but translated counterparts of some formerly reported primary solutions. A few specific examples are discussed in detail.     

Painlevé analysis and invariant solutions of generalized fifth-order nonlinear integrable equation

In present work, new form of generalized fifth-order nonlinear integrable equation has been investigated by locating movable critical points with aid of Painlevé analysis and it has been found that this equation passes Painlevé test for \(\alpha =\beta \) which implies affirmation toward the complete integrability. Lie symmetry analysis is implemented to obtain the infinitesimals of the group of transformations of underlying equation, which has been further pre-owned to furnish reduced ordinary differential equations. These are then used to establish new abundant exact group-invariant solutions involving various arbitrary constants in a uniform manner.