Similarity solutions for a model arising from high frequency excitation of liquid metal in an antisymmetric magnetic field

The study of similarity solutions is necessary for the understanding of the dynamical behaviour of the fluid in the high-frequency excitation of liquid metal embedded in an antisymmetric magnetic field. Such similarity solutions are governed by the third-order non-linear equation: f‴+m+1/2 ff″2 = 0 on (0, + ∞), subject to the boundary conditions f(0) = a ∈ ℝ, f′(0) = -1 and f′(+∞) = 0. The remaining unsolved case is for m ε (- 1, 0). In this paper, we will give an almost complete solution structure of this problem for m ε (- 1, 0), which complements earlier results in literature.