Invariant subspaces and new explicit solutions to evolution equations with quadratic nonlinearities
- 1 January 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Section A Mathematics
- Vol. 125 (2) , 225-246
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0308210500028018
Abstract
We present new explicit solutions to some classes of quasilinear evolution equations arising in different applications, including equations of the Boussinesq type:and quasilinear heat equations:The method is based on construction of finite-dimensional linear functional subspaces which are invariant with respect to spatial operators having quadratic nonlinearities. The corresponding nonlinear evolution equations on invariant subspaces are shown to be equivalent to finite-dimensional dynamical systems. Examples of two-, three- and five- dimensional invariant subspaces are given. Some generalisations to N-dimensional quadratic operators are also considered.Keywords
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