Stability, instability and interaction of solitary pulses in a composite medium

摘要

The questions of a dynamical stability and instability of solition-like solutions(solitary pulses) of the Hamiltonian equations, describing planar waves in nonlinear elastic composites are considered, both in the presence as well as in the absence of the anisotropy. In the anisotropic case one has the slow and the fast two-parametric soliton families on the background of the quiescent state. In the absence of the anisotropy these two families coalesce into the unique three parametric family. It was shown recently that solitary pulses of the slow family in the anisotropic composite and pulses in the isotropic composite are stable when their speeds lie inside a certain range, the so-called range of stability.