Solitary waves propagation described by Korteweg-de Vries equation in the granular chain with initial prestress

The paper work relates to Nesterenko’s problem to further study the solitary wave when the strong external force acts on the granular chain. We also study the problem under the long-wavelength approximation and find that such kind of solitary wave in system with the initial prestress can be described by the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation. It is found that the results of analytical and numerical are in an excellent agreement. Furthermore, we study the scattering of the KdV solitary wave in different granular materials both in theoretical and numerical methods. It is found that the numbers and the amplitudes of both the reflected and the transmitted waves depend not only on the amplitude of the incident solitary wave but also on the variations of both sides of the discontinuity such as the mass, Young’s modulus or radius of the grains.