Lie Symmetries, One-Dimensional Optimal System and Group Invariant Solutions for the Ripa System

Abstract

Abstract A complete symmetry group classification for the system of shallow water equations with the horizontal temperature gradient, also known as Ripa system, is presented. A rigorous and systematic procedure based on the general invariants of the adjoint representation is used to construct the one-dimensional optimal system of the Lie algebra. The complete inequivalence class of the group invariant solutions are obtained by using the one-dimensional optimal system. One such solution of the Ripa system is used to study the evolutionary behaviour of the discontinuity wave.