“…Ovsiannikov [78] developed the method of partially invariant solutions. Bluman and Cole [9], in their study of symmetry reductions of the linear heat equation, proposed the so-called nonclassical method of group-invariant solutions (in the sequel referred to as the nonclassical method), which is also known as the "method of conditional symmetries" [33,34,36,37,59,76,81,82,103] and the "method of partial symmetries of the first type" [97]. In this method, the original pde (1.1) is augmented with the invariant surface condition ψ ≡ ξ(x, t, u)u x + τ (x, t, u)u t − φ(x, t, u) = 0, (1.4) which is associated with the vector field (1.3).…”