Special Session 45: Lie Symmetries, Conservation Laws and Other Approaches in Solving Nonlinear Differential Equations

Partial Differential Equations: The Heat and Burgers` Equation

Sameerah Jamal
University of the Witwatersrand
So Africa
Co-Author(s):    U. Obaidullah, R. Maphanga
Abstract:
We present some recent advances of the applications of one-parameter Lie group transformations of famous partial differential equations. In particular, we discuss Burgers` equation and the classical heat equation, which are often the benchmarks in the study of differential equations. In former case, we exploit the link between the equation and a recursion operator and in the latter we show how a fundamental solution may be manipulated to gain further insights.