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Circular and transverse wave solutions of non-linear hyperbolic systems of equations

  • Robin J. Waterston (a1)
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Circularly and transversely polarised (henceforth called circular and transverse) waves have been shown to occur as solutions of non-linear equations governing a wide range of physical phenomena, including finite elasticity (1), magnetohydrodynamics (2), and gyromagnetism (3), but only when the material properties of the medium are isotropic with respect to the direction of wave propagation. This paper is an attempt to unify and generalise these results.

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(1) Bland, D. R., Plane isentropic large displacement simple waves in a compressible elastic solid, Z. Angew. Math.Phys. 16 (1965), 752–769.
(2) Bazer, J. and Fleischman, O., Propagation of weak hydromagnetic discontinuities, Phys. Fluids 2 (1959) 366378.
(3) Hatfield, W. B. and Auld, B. A., Method of characteristics solution for electromagnetic wave propagation in a gyromagnetic medium, J. Math. Phys. 43 (1964) 3437.
(4) Lax, P. D., Hyperbolic systems of conservation laws, II Comm. Pure. Appl. Math. 10 (1957) 537566.
(5) Courant, R. and Hilbert, D., Methods of Mathematical Physics, Vol. II Interscience, 1962).
(6) Jeffrey, A. and Taniuti, T., Non-Linear Wave Propagation (Academic Press 1964).
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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society
  • ISSN: 0013-0915
  • EISSN: 1464-3839
  • URL: /core/journals/proceedings-of-the-edinburgh-mathematical-society
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