AN APPLICATION OF DOUBLE-SCALE METHOD TO THE STUDY OF NON-LINEAR DISSIPATIVE WAVES IN JEFFREYS MEDIA

In previous papers we sketched out the general use of the doublescalemethod to nonlinear hyperbolic partial differential equations(PDEs) in order to study the asymptotic waves and as an examplethe model governing the motion of a rheological medium (Maxwellmedium) with one mechanical internal variable was studied. In thispaper the double scale method is applied to investigate non-linear dissipative waves in viscoanelastic media without memory of order one(Jeffreys media), that were studied by one of the authors (L. R.) inmore classical way. For these media the equations of motion includesecond order derivative terms multiplied by a very small parameter. We give a physical interpretation of the new (fast) variable, related to the surfaces across which the solutions or/and some of their derivatives vary steeply. The paper concludes with one-dimensional application containing original results.