Pulse propagation in tapered granular chains: an analytic study.
We study pulse propagation in one-dimensional tapered chains of spherical granules. Analytic results for the pulse velocity and other pulse features are obtained using a binary collision approximation. Comparisons with numerical results show that the binary collision approximation provides quantitatively accurate analytic results for these chains.
Harbola
Upendra
U
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and BioCircuits Institute, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0340, USA.
Rosas
Alexandre
A
Esposito
Massimiliano
M
Lindenberg
Katja
K
D008956:Models, Chemical; D009038:Motion; D010316:Particle Size