On the spectral stability of soliton-like solutions to a non-local hydrodynamic-type model

Abstract

A model of nonlinear elastic medium with internal structure is considered. The medium is assumed to contain cavities, microcracks or blotches of substances that differ sharply in physical properties from the base material. To describe the wave processes in such a medium, the averaged values of physical fields are used. This leads to nonlinear evolutionary PDEs, differing from the classical balance equations. The system under consideration possesses a family of invariant soliton-like solutions. These solutions are shown to be spectrally stable under certain restrictions on the parameters.

22 pages, 3 figures; typos corrected