Hamiltonian dynamics of an elastica and the stability of solitary waves

DOI10.1007/BF02198477MaRDI QIDQ2365376zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors J. H. Maddocks, Robert L. Pego, Donald J. Dichmann

Publication date 22 April 1997

Published in Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02198477

zbMATH Keywords

critical pointsnonisolated minimizersnonlinear stabilitytime-invariant functionalwave profiles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hamilton's equations (70H05) Vibrations in dynamical problems in solid mechanics (74H45) Stability of dynamical problems in solid mechanics (74H55) Rods (beams, columns, shafts, arches, rings, etc.) (74K10)

Review text

It is known that in the theory of uniform, inextensible, unshearable rods of infinite length there arise solitary-wave solutions with the property that each profile can move at arbitrary speed. The Hamiltonian formulation is exploited to analyze the stability properties of these solitary waves. The wave profiles are first characterized as critical points of an appropriate time-invariant functional. It is then shown that for a certain range of wave speeds the solitary-wave profiles are actually nonisolated minimizers of the functional, a fact with implications for nonlinear stability.

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