Submodels of the generalization of the Leith model of the phenomenological theory of turbulence and of the model of nonlinear diffusion in the inhomogeneous media without absorption

Abstract

We study a nonlinear equation which is equivalent to an equation of generalization of the Leith model of turbulence and to the equation of the model of nonlinear diffusion in an inhomogeneous media without absorption. Using this equation, all submodels admitting continuous Lie transformation groups, acting on the set of solutions of the equations of these submodels are obtained. For obtained submodels, all invariant submodels are found. All essentially distinct invariant solutions describing these invariant submodels are found explicitly, or their finding is reduced to solving nonlinear integral equations. The integral equations defining these solutions reveal new possibilities for analytical and numerical studies. The presence of arbitrary constants in these equations allows one to apply them to the study of different boundary value problems. We have proved the existence and uniqueness of the solution for some boundary value problems. We have investigated the following boundary value problems: (1) a distribution of front-density turbulent kinetic energy in a framework of the generalizion of the Leith model of wave turbulence for which either the spectrum and its wavenumber derivative or the spectrum and its time derivative are given at the initial moment of time at a fixed wavenumber; (2) a nonlinear diffusion process in an inhomogeneous media without absorption, for which either the concentration and its gradient or the concentration and its rate of change are given at the initial moment of time at a fixed point. Under certain additional conditions we have established the existence and uniqueness of the solutions to boundary value problems describing these processes.