Table of Contents: Applications of Lie's theory of ordinary and partial differential equations

Main Author:	Dresner, Lawrence.
Other Authors:	EBSCOhost.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Bristol ; Philadelphia : Institute of Physics Pub., [1999]
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xi, 225 pages) : illustrations.
Subjects:	Differential equations -- Numerical solutions. Differential equations, Partial -- Numerical solutions. Lie groups.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1 One-Parameter Groups
chapter 2 First-Order Ordinary Differential Equations
chapter 3 Second-Order Ordinary Differential Equations
chapter 4 Similarity Solutions of Partial Differential Equations
chapter 5 Traveling-Wave Solutions
chapter 6 Approximate Methods
chapter Symbols and their Definitions
chapter Epilog
chapter AppendixA Linear, First-Order Partial Differential Equations
chapter AppendixB Riemann's Method of Characteristics
chapter AppendixC The Calculus of Variations and the Euler-Lagrange Equation
chapter AppendixD Computation of Invariants and First Differential Invariants from the Transformation Equations
chapter References
chapter 1 One-Parameter Groups.