Instability of solitary waves on Euler's elastica

DOI10.1007/S00033-005-0037-2zbMATH Open1112.74026arXivnlin/0508034OpenAlexW1671521397MaRDI QIDQ2498505FDOQ2498505

A. T. Il'ichev

Publication date: 16 August 2006

Published in: ZAMP. Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Stability of solitary waves in a thin inextensible and unshearable rod of infinite length is studied. Solitary-wave profile ofthe elastica of such a rod without torsion has the form of a planar loop and its speed depends on a tension in the rod. The linear instability of a solitary-wave profile subject to perturbations escaping from the plane of the loop is established for a certain range of solitary-wave speeds. It is done using the properties of the Evans function, an analytic function on the right complex half-plane, that has zeroes if and only if there exist the unstable modes of the linearization around a solitary-wave solution. The result follows from comparison of the behaviour of the Evans function in some neighbourhood of the origin with its asymptotic at infinity. The explicit computation of the leading coefficient of the Taylor series of the Evans function near the origin is performed by means of the symbolic computer language.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0508034

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zbMATH Keywords

orbital stabilitylinearizationEvans function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rods (beams, columns, shafts, arches, rings, etc.) (74K10) Stability of dynamical problems in solid mechanics (74H55) Solitary waves in solid mechanics (74J35)

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