Instability of solitary waves on Euler's elastica

Details Instability of solitary waves on Euler's elastica Instability of solitary waves on Euler's elastica

2005-08-25

arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0508034v1

Nonlinear Sciences

Pattern Formation and Solitons

19 pages, 2 figures

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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.

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