Approximate symmetries in viscoelasticity

Аннотация

In the framework of approximate symmetries, we investigate a perturbed system of partial differential equations for viscoelastic media with nonlinear dissipation. We completely classify the approximate symmetries and prove a theorem on the relation between the symmetries of two related models. In some physical cases, we find approximate solutions using the generator of the group of transformations taken in the first-order approximation.