Collisions between solitary waves propagating in the two-dimensional hexagonal packing granular system

In this paper, we investigate head-on and overtaking collisions of two solitary waves propagating in two-dimensional (2D) hexagonal packing confined in a rectangular region, using the fifth-order Runge–Kutta numerical scheme. In the head-on collision, numerical results indicate that the velocity amplitude of the solitary waves and the second solitary waves is proportional to the impacting velocity of the solitary waves. The relationship between...