The stability of a metastable shock wave in a viscoelastic medium under two-dimensional perturbations

✍ Scribed by A.G. Kulikovskii; A.P. Chugainova

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 859 KB
• Volume: 66
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-8928
• DOI: 10.1016/s0021-8928(02)00014-x

✦ Synopsis

The unsteady motions of a viscoelastic medium are considered, taking account of a small anisotropy and a small non-linearity. The behaviour of a metastable, quasi-transverse shock wave when it interacts with non-one-dimensional perturbations is investigated numerically. The stability of this wave under non-one-dimensional perturbations of large amplitude is demonstrated.