BACKLUND TRANSFORMATION AND SIMILARITY REDUCTIONS OF BOUSSINESQ EQUATION

The homogeneous balance method, which is simple and straightforward, is extended to seek for Backlund transformation, exact bell shape soliton solutions and similarity reduction of the Boussinesq equation. The method can be used in general.

Conditional Similarity Reductions of Jimbo—Miwa Equation via the Classical Lie Group Approach

Recently, the Clarkson and Kruskal direct method has been modified to find new similarity reductions (conditional similarity reductions) of nonlinear systems and the results obtained by the modified direct method cannot be obtained by the current classical and/or non-classical Lie group approach. In this paper, we show that the conditional similarity reductions of the Jimbo-Miwa equation can be reobtained by adding an additional constraint equation to the original model to form a conditional equation system first and then solving the model system by means of the classical Lie group approach.

Multiple Soliton-Like Solutions and Similarity Reductions of a Spherical Kadomtsev-Petviashvili Equation from Plasma Physics

A spherical Kadomtsev-Petviashvili （SKP） equation for dust acoustic or ion-acoustic waves is studied. Similarity reductions of the SKP equation are obtained with the one-parameter （ε） Lie group of infinitesimal transformations and Clarkson-Kruskal direct method, The SKP equation is also solved with a generalized tanh function method.

SIMILARITY REDUCTIONS FOR 2+1-DIMENSIONAL VARIABLE COEFFICIENT GENERALIZED KADOMTSEV-PETVIASHVILI EQUATION

With the aid of MATHEMATICA, the direct reduction method,vas extended and applied in 2 + 1-dimensional variable coefficient generalized Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation( VCGRPE). As a result, several kinds of similarity reductions for VCGKPE are obtained which contain Painleve I, Painleve II and Painleve ni reductions.

Symmetries and Similarity Reductions of a New (2+1)-Dimensional Shallow Water Wave System

The symmetries of a （2＋1）-dimensional shallow water wave system, which is newly constructed through applying variation principle of analytic mechanics, are researched in this paper. The Lie symmetries and the corresponding reductions are obtained by means of classical Lie group approach. The （1＋1） dimensional displacement shallow water wave equation can be derived from the reductions when special symmetry parameters are chosen.

Similarity Reduction and Integrability for the Nonlinear Wave Equations from EPM Model

Four types of similarity reductions are obtained for the nonlinear wave equation arising in the elasto-plasticmicrostructure model by using both the direct method due to Clarkson and Kruskal and the improved direct method due to Lou. As a result, the nonlinear wave equation is not integrable.

Similarity Reductions and Exact Solutions of a Coupled Korteweg de Vries System

For a special coupled Korteweg de Vries （KdV） system, its similarity solutions and reduction equations are obtained by the Clarkson and Kruskal＇s direct method. In addition, its new explicit soliton solutions and traveling wave solutions are found by the deformation and mapping method.

Some Similarity Reduction Solutions to Two-Dimensional Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equation

We investigate the symmetry reduction for the two-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equationin conventional stream function form through Lie symmetry method and construct some similarity reduction solutions.Two special cases in [D.K.Ludlow,P.A.Clarkson,and A.P.Bassom,Stud.Appl.Math.103 (1999) 183] and a theoremin [S.Y.Lou,M.Jia,X.Y.Tang,and F.Huang,Phys.Rev.E 75 (2007) 056318] are retrieved.

Similarity Reductions and Painlevé Property of Coupled KdV Equations

Using Ablowitz-Ramani Segur algorithm, the coupled KdV systems are reclassified under the Painlevé integrable sense while the similarity reductions of the model are obtained by using the Clarkson and Kruskal＇s direct method. Some new types of Painlevé integrable models including a model with different dispersion relations for two layer fluids are found.

Similarity Reductions of(2+1)-Dimensional Multi-component Broer-Kaup System

Painleve property of the （2＋1）-dimensional multi-component Broer-Kaup （BK） system is considered by using the standard Weiss Kruskal approaches. Applying the Clarkson and Kruskal （CK） direct method to the （2＋1）- dimensional multi-component BK system, some types of similarity reductions are obtained. By solving the reductions, one can get the solutions of the （2＋1）-dimensional multi-component BK system.

Special Conditional Similarity Reduction Solutions for Two Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

We present a method of special conditional similarity reduction solutions for nonlinear partial differential equations, As concrete examples of its application, we apply this method to the （2＋1）-dimensional modified Broer- Kaup equations and the variable coefficient KdV-mKdV equation, which have extensive physics backgrounds, and obtain abundant exact solutions derived from some reduction equations.

A Note on Similarity Reductions of Barotropic and Quasi-geostrophic Potential Vorticity Equation

Applying the classical Lie symmetry approach to the barotropic and quasi-geostrophic potential vorticity equation without forcing and dissipation on a β-plane channel, we find a new symmetry, which is not presented in a previous work [F. Huang, Commun. Theor. Phys. （Beijing, China） 42 （2004） 903]. A general finite transformation group is obtained based on the full Lie point symmetry, Furthermore, two new types of similarity reduction solutions are obtained.

Similarity Reductions of Nearly Concentric KdV Equation

Basing on the direct method developed by Clarkson and Kruskal, the nearly concentric Korteweg-de Vries （ncKdV） equation can be reduced to three types of （1＋1）-dimensional variable coefficients partial differential equations （PDEs） and three types of variable coefficients ordinary differential equation. Furthermore, three types of （1＋1）-dimensional variable coefficients PDEs are all reduced to constant coefficients PDEs by some transformations.

Similarity Reductions of Nonisospectral BKP Equation

Basing on the direct method developed by Clarkson and Kruskal,the nonisospectral BKP equation can bereduced to three types of(1+1)-dimensional variable coefficients partial differential equations(PDEs).Furthermore,onthe basis of the idea of the symmetry group direct method by Lou et al.,three types of reduction PDEs are all reducedto the related constant coefficients PDEs by some transformations.

SIMILARITY REDUCTIONS FOR THE NONLINEAR EVOLUTION EQUATION ARISING IN THE FERMI-PASTA-ULAM PROBLEM

Four families of similarity reductions are obtained for the nonlinear evolution equation arising in the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam problem via using both the direct method due to Clarkson and Kruskal and the improved direct method due to Lou.

Similarity Reductions of Nonisospectral KP Equation by a Direct Method

On bases of the direct method developed by Clarkson and Kruskal [J.Math.Phys.27 (1989) 2201],the(2+1)-dimensional nonisospectral Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) equation has been reduced to three types of (1+1)-dimensional partial differential equations.We focus on solving the third type of reduction and dividing them into threesubcases,from which we obtain rich solutions including some arbitrary functions.

New Similarity Reduction Solutions for the(2+1)-Dimensional Nizhnik-Novikov-Veselov Equation

In this paper,some new formal similarity reduction solutions for the(2+1)-dimensional Nizhnik-Novikov-Veselov equation are derived.Firstly,we derive the similarity reduction of the NNV equation with the optimal system of the admitted one-dimensional subalgebras.Secondly,by analyzing the reduced equation,three types of similarity solutions are derived,such as multi-soliton like solutions,variable separations solutions,and KdV type solutions.

One-Dimensional Optimal System and Similarity Reductions of Wu–Zhang Equation

The one-dimensional optimal system for the Lie symmetry group of the(2+1)-dimensional Wu–Zhan equation is constructed by the general and systematic approach. Based on the optimal system, the complete and inequivalent symmetry reduction systems are presented in the form of table. It is noteworthy that a new Painlev integrable equation with constant coefficient is in the table besides the classic Boussinesq equation and the steady cas of the Wu–Zhang equation.

Time-fractional Davey–Stewartson equation:Lie point symmetries,similarity reductions,conservation laws and traveling wave solutions

As a celebrated nonlinear water wave equation,the Davey–Stewartson equation is widely studied by researchers,especially in the field of mathematical physics.On the basis of the Riemann–Liouville fractional derivative,the time-fractional Davey–Stewartson equation is investigated in this paper.By application of the Lie symmetry analysis approach,the Lie point symmetries and symmetry groups are obtained.At the same time,the similarity reductions are derived.Furthermore,the equation is converted to a system of fractional partial differential equations and a system of fractional ordinary differential equations in the sense of Riemann–Liouville fractional derivative.By virtue of the symmetry corresponding to the scalar transformation,the equation is converted to a system of fractional ordinary differential equations in the sense of Erdélyi–Kober fractional integro-differential operators.By using Noether’s theorem and Ibragimov’s new conservation theorem,the conserved vectors and the conservation laws are derived.Finally,the traveling wave solutions are achieved and plotted.

Conditional Similarity Solutions of the Boussinesq Equation

The direct method proposed by Clarkson and Kruskal is modified to obtain some conditional similarity solutions of a nonlinear physics model. Taking the -dimensional Boussinesq equation as a simple example, six types of conditional similarity reductions are obtained.