Similarity solutions of the nonlinear diffusion equation
Similarity solutions of the nonlinear diffusion equation
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DOI:
10.1007/bf00249197
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发表时间:
1974-12
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
F. Atkinson;L. Peletier
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作者:
F. Atkinson;L. Peletier
We shall discuss a class of solutions of the nonlinear diffusion equation~ u~(k (u)~ U),~ t--O~-~ x(1) in which u denotes a concentration, xa spatial coordinate and t time. We shall be concerned with diffusion into a semi-infinite medium. Thus (1) will be assumed to hold in the domain O< x< oo, 0< t< oo. For a survey of earlier work on equation (1) we refer to [1],[4] or [6], and to the literature cited therein. About the diffusion coefficient k (s) we shall assume that it is defined, real and positive if 0< s=< d, for some d> 0, and that it is Lebesgue integrable on (0, d). Moreover we shall require that d lim S k! O d~= oo.(,) s~ OsIf k (s) is bounded away from zero on (0, d], condition (*) is satisfied. Thus, the class of equations we consider includes the classical heat equation and, more generally, the class of uniformly parabolic equations. However, condition (,) also admits equations which are degenerate parabolic. An example of such an equation is obtained if we set k (s)=(logs-1)-1 and O< s__< d< l. Then condition (,) is