Universal Power-Law Decay of the Impulse Energy in Granular Protectors

Abstract

Protecting a big impulse from outside is one of the important issues of our everyday life. A granular medium is often used as a protecting material. The impulse inside a granular medium is a solitary wave which may be confined temporarily to a particular region of the medium, which we call the granular container that plays the role of the protector. We find a universal power-law behavior in time for the leakage of the impulse energy confined inside various granular containers.