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Solutions of a nonlinear hyperbolic system of equations describing weakly nonlinear quasitransverse waves in a weakly anisotropic elastic medium are studied. The influence of small-scale processes of dissipation and dispersion is investigated. The small-scale processes determine the structure of discontinuities (shocks) and a set of discontinuities with a stationary structure. Among the discontinuities with a stationary structure, there are special ones that, in addition to relations following from conservation laws, satisfy additional relations required for the existence of their structure. In the phase plane, the structure of such discontinuities is represented by an integral curve joining two saddles. Special discontinuities lead to nonunique self-similar solutions of the Riemann problem. Asymptotics of non-self-similar problems for equations with dissipation and dispersion are found numerically. These asymptotics correspond to self-similar solutions of the problems.
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Original Russian Text © A.P. Chugainova, 2017, published in Zhurnal Vychislitel’noi Matematiki i Matematicheskoi Fiziki, 2017, Vol. 57, No. 6, pp. 1023–1032.
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Chugainova, A.P. Special discontinuities in nonlinearly elastic media. Comput. Math. and Math. Phys. 57, 1013–1021 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0965542517060069
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