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Title: Breathers in a locally resonant granular chain with precompression

Journal Article · · Physica. D, Nonlinear Phenomena
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [1]
  1. Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
  2. INRIA Grenoble-Rhone Alpes, Montbonnot-Saint-Martin (France)
  3. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Here we study a locally resonant granular material in the form of a precompressed Hertzian chain with linear internal resonators. Using an asymptotic reduction, we derive an effective nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) modulation equation. In turn, this leads us to provide analytical evidence, subsequently corroborated numerically, for the existence of two distinct types of discrete breathers related to acoustic or optical modes: (a) traveling bright breathers with a strain profile exponentially vanishing at infinity and (b) stationary and traveling dark breathers, exponentially localized, time-periodic states mounted on top of a non-vanishing background. Moreover, the stability and bifurcation structure of numerically computed exact stationary dark breathers is also examined. Stationary bright breathers cannot be identified using the NLS equation, which is defocusing at the upper edges of the phonon bands and becomes linear at the lower edge of the optical band.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
DMS-1007908; DMS-1506904; FA9550-12-1-0332; W911NF-15-1-0604; AC52-06NA25396
OSTI ID:
1258012
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1359742
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-15-25012
Journal Information:
Physica. D, Nonlinear Phenomena, Vol. 331, Issue C; ISSN 0167-2789
Publisher:
ElsevierCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 22 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

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Elastic Wannier-Stark ladders and Bloch oscillations in 1D granular crystals journal March 2018
Waves in Structured Mediums or Metamaterials: A Review journal May 2018
Nonlinear mechanisms of two-dimensional wave-wave transformations in the initially coupled acoustic structure journal January 2018
Nonlinear excitations in magnetic lattices with long-range interactions journal June 2019
Nonlinear excitations in magnetic lattices with long-range interactions text January 2019
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Elastic Wannier-Stark Ladders and Bloch Oscillations in 1D Granular Crystals text January 2017
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