Group-Invariant Solutions for Two-Dimensional Free, Wall, and Liquid Jets Having Finite Fluid Velocity at Orifice.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2011, Article ID 615612, 12 pages doi:10.1155/2011/615612 Research Article Group-Invariant Solutions for Two-Dimensional Free, Wall, and Liquid Jets Having Finite Fluid Velocity at Orifice R. Naz Centre for Mathematics and Statistical Sciences, Lahore School of Economics, Lahore 53200, Pakistan Correspondence should be addressed to R. Naz, rehananaz qau@ Received 28 January 2011; Accepted 22 June 2011 Academic Editor: Furong Gao Copyright q 2011 R. Naz. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The group-invariant solutions for nonlinear third-order partial differential equation PDE gov- erning flow in two-dimensional jets free, wall, and liquid having finite fluid velocity at orifice are constructed. The symmetry associated with the conserved vector that was used to derive the conserved quantity for the jets free, wall, and liquid generated the group invariant solution for the nonlinear third-order PDE for the stream function. The comparison between results for two- dimensional jet flows having finite and infinite fluid velocity at orifice is presented. The general form of the group invariant solution for two-dimensional jets is given explicitly. 1. Introduction The governing equations for two-dimensional jet flows are expressed either as the system of two PDEs for the velocity components or by a single nonlinear third-order PDE for the stream function. In 1, 2 the similarity solution and in 3 the group-invariant solution were constructed for the nonlinear third-order PDE for the stream function for two-dimensional free jet with infinite fluid velocity at the orifice. The group