Infinite lie groups of point transformations leaving invariant the linear equation which describes in the hodograph plane the isentropic one-dimensio…

1991

Abstract The group analysis of the hodograph equation which is equivalent to the non-linear system of one-dimensional isentropic gas dynamics reveals the existence of infinite groups of symmetry in correspondence with particular pressure laws. These turn out to be polytropes with selected indices, as is expected, as well as a new type of pressure. In all these cases the hodograph equation can be transformed, by a suitable change of variables, into the wave equationψ ζ = 0.