Symmetry Reduction Related by Nonlocal Symmetry and Explicit Solutions for the Whitham-Broer-Kaup System

摘要

The nonlocal symmetry for the Whitham-Broer-Kaup (WBK) equation is obtained by the Painleve analysis. With the introduction of two auxiliary dependent variables, the nonlocal symmetry is localized to the Lie point symmetry. The reciprocal transformation is established by the localization nonlocal symmetry procedure and can be used to construct a link between the WBK equation and the usual Burgers equation. By using the similarity reductions related with the nonlocal symmetry of the Burgers equation, we derive the symmetry invariant solutions for the WBK equation. Furthermore, the power-series solutions are computed by using the power-series theory.