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Volume 93, 2014 - Issue 12
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Lie group analysis and propagation of weak discontinuity in one-dimensional ideal isentropic magnetogasdynamics

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Pages 2598-2607 | Received 04 Nov 2012, Accepted 02 Jan 2014, Published online: 06 Feb 2014
 

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to carry out symmetry group analysis to obtain important classes of exact solutions from the given system of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs). Lie group analysis is employed to derive some exact solutions of one dimensional unsteady flow of an ideal isentropic, inviscid and perfectly conducting compressible fluid, subject to a transverse magnetic field for the magnetogasdynamics system. By using Lie group theory, the full one-parameter infinitesimal transformations group leaving the equations of motion invariant is derived. The symmetry generators are used for constructing similarity variables which leads the system of PDEs to a reduced system of ordinary differential equations; in some cases, it is possible to solve these equations exactly. Further, using the exact solution, we discuss the evolutionary behavior of weak discontinuity.

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Acknowledgements

Research support from, Ministry of Minority Affairs through UGC, Government of India (Ref. //--- /(-/) and National Board for Higher Mathematics, Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India (Ref. No. 2/48(1)/2011/-R&D II/4715), gratefully acknowledged by the first and second authors, respectively. The authors would like to thank anonymous referees for their helpful comments and suggestions on earlier version of this article.

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