Method of <Emphasis Type="Italic">A</Emphasis>-operators and conservation laws for the equations of gas dynamics

An algorithm is proposed which allows all conservation laws for a system of differential equations to be to obtained from its one zero-order conservation law for which the general rank of the Jacobi matrix is equal to the number of independent variables of the system. The efficiency of the algorithm is shown by examples of the equations of gas dynamics, for which new conservation laws are derived. For the equations considered, additional symmetry properties related to these conservation laws are established. __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 50, No. 2, pp. 53–60, March–April, 2009.