Disintegration conditions for a nonlinear wave in a viscoelastic medium (Q1569351)

The authors study numerically quasi-transverse waves in a viscoelastic medium which interact with local inhomogeneities. The authors determine the parameters of inhomogeneities which can cause irreversible disintegration of a wave into a system of waves with different velocities. The corresponding initial-boundary value problem is approximated by nonlinear implicit finite difference scheme and solved first by Newton's method, and then by the matrix sweep method.