96
D.
Fusco
and
N.
Manganaro
ii)
mo
=
0,ml
=
O,m2
arbitrary. Here an approach similar to
that above yields
emZx
-
e-mZX
v(x,t)
=
2m2r
(3.25)
In
both cases i) and ii) considered above there are no restrictions
on the function
P(x)
simulating external pressure in the governing
model
(2.11), (2.12).
4
Conclusions and Final Remarks
The method of approach we developed herein in order to determine
exact solutions to the nonautonomous system governing flows in
fluid-filled elastic tubes was essentially based on two steps. First, by
considering the general classes of material response functions
(2.3)
to
(2.5)
allowing for the existence of group symmetries to the model
in point as shown in
[14],
we used the similarity-like variable trans-
formation
(2.8)
to
(2.10)
in order to reduce the system of equations
(2.1), (2.2)
to the autonomous form
(2.11), (2.12).
Furthermore for
the latter system we worked out
a
procedure for finding out the con-
cerned solutions for which the model
(2.11), (2.12)
is consistent with
two additional equations like
(1.3)
and
(1.4)
with
a
prescribed form
of
F
and
G
suggested by
a
well established result for
2
x
2
quasilinear
homogeneous hyperbolic systems of first order.
Of
course, along the
same lines of the analysis worked out hitherto other forms of
F
and
G
can be considered. In these cases
a
leading idea to prescribe
F
and
G
is to achieve, by means of the transformation
(3.2),
a
hodograph-like
system (see
(3.4))
which can be reduced to
a
canonical form dowing
for an explicit integration
[4], [5].
In the process we have been able to
provide
a
vehicle for characterizing possible model constitutive laws
to the governing system under interest. About that concern we re-
mark that we have some freedom to choose the function
g(n)
which
characterizes the cross-sectional area law and which is involved also