Symmetries and Similarity Reductions of a New (2+1)-Dimensional Shallow Water Wave System

The symmetries of a (2+1)-dimensional shallow water wave system, which is newly constructed through applying variation principle of analytic mechanics, are researched in this paper. The Lie symmetries and the corresponding reductions are obtained by means of classical Lie group approach. The (1+1) dimensional displacement shallow water wave equation can be derived from the reductions when special symmetry parameters are chosen.