Thermalizing an impulse

Surajit Sen, Felicia S. Manciu and Marian Manciu

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2001, vol. 299, issue 3, 551-558

Abstract: We study the propagation of an impulse through a finite chain of N elastic beads in which the grain diameters progressively shrink by a factor q. We show that it should be possible to construct “tapered” chains that can effectively thermalize shock waves.

Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(01)00340-5

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