Approximate symmetry analysis of nonlinear Rayleigh-wave equation

Abstract

In this paper, the Lie approximate symmetry analysis is applied to investigate the new exact solutions of the Rayleigh-wave equation. The power series method is employed to solve some of the obtained reduced ordinary differential equations with a small parameter. We yield the new analytical solutions with small parameter which is effectively obtained by the proposed method. The concept of nonlinear self-adjointness is used to construct the conservation laws for Rayleigh-wave equation. It is shown that this equation is approximately nonlinearly self-adjoint and therefore desired conservation laws can be found using appropriate formal Lagrangians.