The Open Cybernetics & Systemics Journal

2014, 8 : 1042-1046
Published online 2014 December 31. DOI: 10.2174/1874110X014080101042
Publisher ID: TOCSJ-8-1042

Approximate Solutions and Symmetry Group for Initial-Value Problem of Nonlinear Cahn-Hilliard Equation

Jina Li , Hong Li , Suli Zuo and Cong Gu
College of Science, Zhongyuan University of Technology, Zhengzhou 450007, China.

ABSTRACT

In this paper , for the nonlinear Cahn-Hilliard equation, we give its symmetry group by the approximate generalized conditional symmetry. As the application of approximate generalized conditional symmetry, the initial-value problem of the partial differential equations can be reduced to perturbed initial-value problem for a system of perturbed first-order ordinary differential equations. By solving the reduced ordinary differential equations, we obtain the approximate solutions of the initial-value problem of research equations. At the last, some exaples be given to show the reduction procedure.

Keywords:

Approximate solution , symmetry group, symmetry reduction.