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Symmetries and conservation laws are studied for a generalized Westervelt equation which is a nonlinear partial differential equation modelling the propagation of sound waves in a compressible medium. This nonlinear wave equation is widely…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Almudena del Pilar Márquez , Elena Recio , María Luz Gandarias

Because scaling symmetries of the Euler-Lagrange equations are generally not variational symmetries of the action, they do not lead to conservation laws. Instead, an extension of Noether's theorem reduces the equations of motion to…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-11-25 Sidney Bludman , Dallas C. Kennedy

The system of equations of one-dimensional shallow water over uneven bottom in Euler's and Lagrange's variables is considered. Intermediate system of equations is introduced. Hydrodynamic conservation laws of intermediate system of…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2018-12-14 Alexander V. Aksenov , Konstantin P. Druzhkov

Classifications of symmetries and conservation laws are presented for a variety of physically and analytically interesting wave equations with power onlinearities in n spatial dimensions: a radial hyperbolic equation, a radial Schrodinger…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen C. Anco , Nataliya M. Ivanova

This paper presents recent work on connections between symmetries and conservation laws. After reviewing Noether's theorem and its limitations, we present the Direct Construction Method to show how to find directly the conservation laws for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-04-24 George Bluman

Any symmetry reduces a second-order differential equation to a first-order equation: variational symmetries of the action (exemplified by central field dynamics) lead to conservation laws, but symmetries of only the equations of motion…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-06-08 Sidney Bludman

The connection between symmetries and conservation laws as made by Noether's theorem is extended to the context of causal variational principles and causal fermion systems. Different notions of continuous symmetries are introduced. It is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-05-13 Felix Finster , Johannes Kleiner

The notions of generating sets of conservation laws of systems of differential equations with respect to symmetry groups and equivalence groups are introduced and applied. This allows us to generalize essentially the procedure of finding…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-10-17 N. M. Ivanova , R. O. Popovych , C. Sophocleous

Nonlinear contact dynamics are widely regarded as intrinsically nonlinear systems whose behaviour depends strongly on geometry and impact conditions. Here we show that any one-dimensional conservative contact system satisfying monotone…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Y. T. Feng

The relation between symmetries and local conservation laws, known as Noether's theorem, plays an important role in modern theoretical physics. As a discrete analog of the differentiable physical system, a good numerical scheme should admit…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-04-09 Qiang Chen , Xiaojun Hao , Chuanchuan Wang , Xiaoyang Wang , Xiang Chen , Lifei Geng

This work extends the Ibragimov's conservation theorem for partial differential equations [{\it J. Math. Anal. Appl. 333 (2007 311-328}] to under determined systems of differential equations. The concepts of adjoint equation and formal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Mahouton Norbert Hounkonnou , Pascal Dkengne Sielenou

The conservation laws of electromagnetism, and implicitly all theories built from quadratic Lagrangians, are extended to a continuum of nonlocal versions. These are associated with symmetries of a class of equal time field correlation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-07-28 Clifford Chafin

The present paper is focused on the analysis of the one-dimensional relativistic gas dynamics equations. The studied equations are considered in Lagrangian description, making it possible to find a Lagrangian such that the relativistic gas…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Warisa Nakpim , Sergey V. Meleshko

Any symmetry reduces a second-order differential equation to a first integral: variational symmetries of the action (exemplified by central field dynamics) lead to conservation laws, but symmetries of only the equations of motion…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-04-29 Sidney Bludman , Dallas C. Kennedy

It's well known that Noether symmetries lead to the conservation laws. Conserved quantities are constructed out of generator of the symmetry - invariant Hamiltonian vector field. Considering more general class of vector fields -…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 George Chavchanidze

A generalization of the KP equation involving higher-order dispersion is studied. This equation appears in several physical applications. As new results, the Lie point symmetries are obtained and used to derive conservation laws via…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-06-26 Almudena P. Marquez , Maria L. Gandarias , Stephen C. Anco

Two-dimensional gas dynamics equations in mass Lagrangian coordinates are studied in this paper. The equations describing these flows are reduced to two Euler-Lagrange equations. Using group classification and Noether's theorem,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 E. I. Kaptsov , S. V. Meleshko

A highly nonlinear, fourth-order wave equation that models the continuum theory of long wavelength pulses in weakly compressed, discrete, homogeneous chains with a general power-law contact interaction is studied. For this wave equation,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-10-05 Michelle Przedborski , Stephen C. Anco

English version of abstract: The dynamic optimization problems treated by the calculus of variations are usually solved with the help of the 2nd order Euler-Lagrange differential equations. These equations are, generally speaking,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-09-02 Paulo D. F. Gouveia , Delfim F. M. Torres

In Lagrangian mechanics, Noether conservation laws including the energy one are obtained similarly to those in field theory. In Hamiltonian mechanics, Noether conservation laws are issued from the invariance of the Poincare-Cartan integral…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Sardanashvily