Solitary waves in auxetic rods with quadratic nonlinearity: Exact analytical solutions and numerical simulations

Special soliton analytical solutions are seeked for the so-called double dispersion equation (or Porubov's equation), which describes the propagation of longitudinal waves in an elastic rod. Using the F-expansion method, a new interesting class of traveling solitary waves is obtained. As a byproduct, the results obtained by other authors for some special cases are regained. Some numerical simulations are also performed. Splitting of various initial pulses during propagation into a sequence of solitary waves is considered. The dependence of the amplitude and the velocity of the solitary waves on Poisson's ratio is discussed in detail. Collisions between some obtained solitary waves are also presented. The simulation results are compared with the obtained exact analytical solutionsthe latter reflect the perfect balance between the nonlinearity and dispersion. The comparison indicates that the obtained exact solutions are useful for describing more complicated wave fields studied by numerical simulations. It also indicates that the numerical results for auxetic materials are in better agreement with theoretical solutions than in the case of ordinary materials. Furthermore, one can conclude that the Secant pulse generates solitary waves closer to the analytical predictions than a Gaussian pulse. This is similar to the case of variational method, where the Secant trial function is also more proper than the Gaussian one. (C) 2015 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim