Self-Adjointness, Symmetries, and Conservation Laws for a Class of Wave Equations Incorporating Dissipation

In this work, we study the nonlinear self-adjointness and conservation laws for a class of wave equations with a dissipative source. We show that the equations are nonlinear self-adjoint. As a result, from the general theorem on conservation laws proved by Ibragimov and the symmetry generators, we f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yang Wang, Long Wei
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2013-01-01
Series:Abstract and Applied Analysis
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/407908