Supersonic kinks and solitons in active solids

DOI10.1098/RSTA.2019.0115MaRDI QIDQ4993474zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors N. Gorbushin, L. Truskinovsky

Publication date 15 June 2021

Published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.10052, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6894520

zbMATH Keywords

active processesapplied mathematicschain modelmechanicsmetamaterialstransition waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear waves in solid mechanics (74J30)

Abstract: To show that steadily propagating nonlinear waves in active matter can be driven internally, we develop a prototypical model of a topological kink moving with a constant supersonic speed. We use a model of a bi-stable mass-spring (FPU) chain capable of generating active stress. In contrast to subsonic kinks in passive bi-stable chains, that are necessarily dissipative, the obtained supersonic solutions are purely anti-dissipative. Our numerical experiments point towards stability of the obtained kink-type solutions and the possibility of propagating kink-anti-kink bundles reminiscent of solitons. We show that even the simplest quasi-continuum approximation of the discrete model captures the most important features of the predicted active phenomena.

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