Similarity solutions for two-phase fluids models

Abstract

The algebraic properties of drift-flux two-phase fluids models without gravitational and wall friction forces are studied. More precisely, for the two fluids we consider equation of states of polytropic gases. We perform a classification scheme of the unknown parameters of the model such that to determine all the possible admitted Lie symmetries. We find that in the most general case the dynamical system of hyperbolic equations is invariant under the action of a four dimensional Lie algebra, while the larger number of admitted Lie symmetries is six. For each admitted Lie algebra the one-dimensional optimal system is derived which is applied for the determination of all the unique similarity transformations which lead to similarity solutions. Our results are compared with that of previous studies from where we see that most of the solutions presented in this study have not found before in the literature.

arXiv comment25 pages, 4 tables; to appear in Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences

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