VARIATIONAL APPROACHES TO CONSERVATION LAWS FOR A NONLINEAR EVOLUTION EQUATION WITH TIME DEPENDENT COEFFICIENTS

被引:5
作者
Johnpillai, A. G. [1 ]
Khalique, C. M. [1 ]
机构
[1] North West Univ, Int Inst Symmetry Anal & Math Modelling, Dept Math Sci, ZA-2735 Mmabatho, South Africa
关键词
Modified KdV equation; Lie point symmetries; adjoint equation; partial Lagrangian; partial Noether operators; conservation laws; PARTIAL-DIFFERENTIAL-EQUATIONS; DIRECT CONSTRUCTION METHOD; SYMMETRIES;
D O I
10.2989/16073606.2011.594238
中图分类号
O1 [数学];
学科分类号
0701 ; 070101 ;
摘要
The conservation laws of a nonlinear evolution equation of time dependent variable coefficients of damping and dispersion is studied. The equation under consideration is not derivable from a variational principle which means that one cannot appeal to the Noether theorem to determine the conservation laws. We utilize the new conservation theorem (N.H. Ibragimov, [8]) and the partial Lagrangian approach (A.H. Kara, F.M. Mahomed, [13]) to construct local, and infinite number of nonlocal conservation laws (due to the transformation of the dependent variable) of the underlying equation.
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页码:235 / 245
页数:11
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