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Solutions of a Nonhomogeneous Burgers Equation
Author(s) -
Rao Ch. Srinivasa,
Yadav Manoj K.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
studies in applied mathematics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.164
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1467-9590
pISSN - 0022-2526
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9590.2009.00478.x
Subject(s) - burgers' equation , mathematics , partial differential equation , heat equation , first order partial differential equation , mathematical analysis , initial value problem , variable (mathematics)
In this article, we construct solutions of a nonhomogeneous Burgers equation subject to certain unbounded initial profiles. In an interesting study, Kloosterziel [1] represented the solution of an initial value problem (IVP) for the heat equation, with initial data in , as a series of the self‐similar solutions of the heat equation. This approach quickly revealed the large time behavior for the solution of the IVP. Inspired by Kloosterziel [1]'s approach, we express the solution of the nonhomogeneous Burgers equation in terms of the self‐similar solutions of a linear partial differential equation with variable coefficients. Finally, we also obtain the large time behavior of the solution of the nonhomogeneous Burgers equation.