Pulse Velocity in a Granular Chain
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
We discuss the applicability of two very different analytic approaches to the study of pulse propagation in a chain of particles interacting via a Hertz potential, namely, a continuum model and a binary collision approximation. While both methods capture some qualitative features equally well, the first is quantitatively good for softer potentials and the latter is better for harder potentials.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0309070,
title = {Pulse Velocity in a Granular Chain},
author = {Alexandre Rosas and Katja Lindenberg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0309070},
year = {2009}
}