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Group Analysis of Nonlinear Fin Equations O. O. Vaneeva†1, A. G. Johnpillai‡2 , R. O. Popovych†♮3 and C. Sophocleous§4 † Institute of Mathematics of NAS of Ukraine, 3 Tereshchenkivska Str., Kyiv-4, 01601 Ukraine ‡ Department of Mathematics, Eastern University, Chenkalady, Sri Lanka ♮Fakult¨at f¨ur Mathematik, Universit¨at Wien, Nordbergstraße 15, A-1090 Wien, Austria §Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Cyprus, Nicosia CY 1678, Cyprus 1vaneeva@imath.kiev.ua, 2 andrewgratienj@, 3 rop@imath.kiev.ua, 4 christod@ucy.ac.cy Group classification of a class of nonlinear fin equations is carried out exhaustively. Additional equivalence transformations and conditional equivalence groups are also found. These allow to 6 0 simplify results of classification and further applications of them. The derived Lie symmetries 0 are used to construct exact solutions of truly nonlinear equations for the class under consider- 2 ation. Nonclassical symmetries of the fin equations are discussed. Adduced results amend and t essentially generalize recent works on the subject [M. Pakdemirli and A.Z. Sahin, Appl. Math. c Lett., 2006, V.19, 378–384; A.H. Bokhari, A.H. Kara and F.D. Zaman, Appl. Math. Lett., 2006, O V.19, 1356–1340]. 3 1 1 Introduction v 6 0 Investigation of heat conductivity and diffusion processes leads to interesting mathematical 0 models which can be often formulated in terms of partial differential equations. In general 0 case coefficients of model equations explicitly include both dependent and independent model 1 6 variables that makes difficulties in studying such models. 0