Compact travelling waves in viscoelastic solids
Pattern Formation and Solitons
2013-03-06 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
Abstract
We introduce a model for nonlinear viscoelastic solids where traveling shear waves with compact support are possible. We obtain an exact compact solution. We also derive a new Burger's type evolution equation associated with the introduced constitutive equation.
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@article{arxiv.1303.0953,
title = {Compact travelling waves in viscoelastic solids},
author = {Michel Destrade and Pedro M. Jordan and Giuseppe Saccomandi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.0953},
year = {2013}
}