Self-adjointness and conservation laws of a generalized Burgers equation
| Document type: | Journal Articles |
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| Article type: | Original article |
| Peer reviewed: | Yes |
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| Author(s): | Nail H. Ibragimov, M. Torrisi, R. Tracinà |
| Title: | Self-adjointness and conservation laws of a generalized Burgers equation |
| Journal: | JOURNAL OF PHYSICS A: MATHEMATICAL AND THEORETICAL |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Volume: | 44 |
| Issue: | 14 |
| Pagination: | 145201 (5pp) |
| ISSN: | 1751-8113 |
| Publisher: | IOP Publishing Ltd |
| URI/DOI: | 10.1088/1751-8113/44/14/145201 |
| ISI number: | 000288597500004 |
| Organization: | Blekinge Institute of Technology |
| Department: | School of Engineering - Dept. of Mathematics & Natural Sciences (Sektionen för ingenjörsvetenskap - Avd.för matematik och naturvetenskap) School of Engineering S-371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 38 50 00 http://www.bth.se/ing/ |
| Authors e-mail: | nib@bth.se |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | A (2 + 1)-dimensional generalized Burgers equation is considered. Having written this equation as a system of two dependent variables, we show that it is quasi self-adjoint and find a nontrivial additional conservation law. |
| Subject: | Mathematics\Analysis Mathematics\General |
| Keywords: | Generalized Burgers equation, conservation law, quasi self-adjoint equation |
| Note: | Online at stacks.iop.org/JPhysA/44/145201 |
