Evolution of the Primary Pulse in 1D Granular Crystals Subject to On-Site Perturbations: Analytical Study

Abstract

Propagation of primary pulse through an un-compressed granular chain subject to external on-site perturbation is studied. Analytical procedure predicting the evolution of the primary pulse is devised for the general form of the on-site perturbation applied on the chain. The validity of the analytical model is confirmed with several specific granular setups such as, chains mounted on the nonlinear elastic foundation, chains perturbed by the dissipative forces as well as randomly perturbed chains. Additional interesting finding made in the present study corresponds to the chains subject to a special type of perturbations including the terms leading to dissipation and those acting as an energy source. It is shown in the study that application of such perturbation may lead to formation of stable stationary shocks acting as attractors for the initially unperturbed, propagating Nesterenko solitary waves. Interestingly enough the developed analytical procedure provides an extremely close estimations for the amplitudes of these stationary shocks as well as predicts zones of their stability. In conclusion we would like to stress that the developed analytical model have demonstrated spectacular correspondence to the results of direct numerical simulations for all the setups considered in the study.