Book

  • Coherent Structures in Granular Crystals:
    From Experiment and Modelling to Computation and Mathematical Analysis
    Christopher Chong and Panayotis G. Kevrekidis
    Springer Briefs in Physics, Springer, New York, 2018 (website)
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Journal Publications

  1. A regularized continuum model for traveling waves and dispersive shocks of the granular chain
    Su Yang, Gino Biondini, Christopher Chong, Panayotis G Kevrekidis
    (2025) (preprint)
  2. On the Existence of Generalized Breathers and Transition Fronts in Time-Periodic Nonlinear Lattices
    Christopher Chong, Dmitry E. Pelinovsky and Guido Schneider
    SIAM J. Appl. Dyn. 24 (2025) 894-928 article (preprint)
  3. Hydrodynamics of a Discrete Conservation Law
    Patrick Sprenger, Christopher Chong, Emmanuel Okyere, Michael Herrmann, P. G. Kevrekidis and Mark A. Hoefer
    Stud. Appl. Math. 153 (2024) e12767 article (preprint)
  4. On the Whitham modulation equations for the Toda lattice and the quantitative characterization of its dispersive shocks
    Gino Biondini, Christopher Chong, and Panayotis G. Kevrekidis
    Physica D 469 (2024) 134315 article (preprint)
  5. Temporal Refraction in an Acoustic Phononic Lattice
    Brian Kim, Christopher Chong and Chiara Daraio
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 133 (2024) 077201 article
    Selected as editors' suggestion and featured in "Physics Magazine"
  6. Integrable approximations of dispersive shock waves of the granular chain
    Christopher Chong, Ari Geisler, Panayotis G. Kevrekidis, Gino Biondini
    Wave Motion 130 (2024) 103352 article (preprint)
  7. Modulation instability and wavenumber bandgap breathers in a time layered phononic lattice
    Christopher Chong, Brian Kim, Evelyn Wallace, and Chiara Daraio
    Phys. Rev. Research 6 (2024) 023045 article (open-access)
    Selected as editors' suggestion
  8. Breathers in lattices with alternating strain-hardening and strain-softening interactions
    M. M. Lee, E. G. Charalampidis, S. Xing, C. Chong, and P. G. Kevrekidis
    Phys. Rev. E 107 (2023) 054208 article (preprint)
  9. Dynamics of time-modulated, nonlinear phononic lattices
    B. L. Kim, C. Chong, S. Hajarolasvadi, Y. Wang, and C. Daraio
    Phys. Rev. E 107 (2023) 034211 article (preprint)
  10. Dispersive Shock Waves in Lattices: A Dimension Reduction Approach
    C. Chong, Michael Herrmann and P. G. Kevrekidis
    Physica D 442 (2022) 133533 article (preprint)
  11. Rogue and solitary waves in coupled phononic crystals
    Y. Miyazawa, C. Chong, P. G. Kevrekidis, and J. Yang
    Phys. Rev. E. 105 (2022) 034202 article (preprint)
  12. Nonlinear localized modes in two-dimensional hexagonally-packed magnetic lattices
    C. Chong, Yifan Wang, Donovan Marechal, E. G. Charalampidis, Miguel Moleron, Alejandro J. Martinez, Mason A. Porter, P. G. Kevrekidis, Chiara Daraio
    New Journal of Physics 23 (2021) 043008 article (preprint)
  13. Breathers and other time-periodic solutions in an array of cantilevers decorated with magnets
    C. Chong, A. Foehr, E. G. Charalampidis, P. G. Kevrekidis and C. Daraio
    Mathematics in Engineering 1 (2019) 489-507 article
  14. Origami-based impact mitigation via rarefaction solitary wave creation
    Hiromi Yasuda, Yasuhiro Miyazawa, Efstathios G. Charalampidis, Christopher Chong, Panayotis G. Kevrekidis, Jinkyu Yang
    Science Advances 5 (2019) eaau2835 article (preprint)
  15. Nonlinear excitations in magnetic lattices with long-range interactions
    Miguel Moleron, C. Chong, Alejandro J. Martínez, Mason A. Porter, P. G. Kevrekidis, Chiara Daraio
    New Journal of Physics 21 (2019) 063032 article
  16. Demonstration of dispersive rarefaction shocks in hollow elliptical cylinder chains
    H. Kim, E. Kim, C. Chong, P. G. Kevrekidis, J. Yang
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 120 (2018) 194101 article (preprint)
  17. Phononic rogue waves
    E.G. Charalampidis, J. Lee, P.G. Kevrekidis, C. Chong
    Phys. Rev. E 98 (2018) 032903 article (preprint)
  18. TOPICAL REVIEW
    Nonlinear coherent structures in granular crystals
    C. Chong, Mason A. Porter, P. G. Kevrekidis and C. Daraio
    Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 29 (2017) 413003 article (preprint)
  19. Emergence of dispersive shocks and rarefaction waves in power-law contact models
    H. Yasuda, C. Chong, J. Yang, and P. G. Kevrekidis
    Phys. Rev. E 95 (2017) 062216 article (preprint)
  20. Discrete breathers in a mass-in-mass chain with Hertzian local resonators
    S. P. Wallen, J. Lee, D. Mei, C. Chong, P. G. Kevrekidis, and N. Boechler
    Phys. Rev. E 95 (2017) 022904 article (preprint)
  21. Wave mixing in coupled phononic crystals via a variable stiffness mechanism
    Gil-Yong Lee, Christopher Chong, Panayotis G. Kevrekidis, Jinkyu Yang,
    Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 95 (2016) 501-516 article (preprint)
  22. Mechanical autonomous stochastic heat engine
    M. Serra-Garcia, A. Foehr, M. Moleron, J. Lydon, C. Chong, C. Daraio
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 117 (2016) 010602 article (preprint)
  23. Unidirectional transition waves in bistable lattices
    N. Nadkarni, A.F. Arrieta, C. Chong, D.M. Kochmann, C. Daraio
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 116 (2016) 244501 article
  24. Nonlinear vibrational-state excitation and piezoelectric energy conversion in harmonically driven granular chains
    C. Chong, E. Kim, E. G. Charalampidis, H. Kim, F. Li, P. G. Kevrekidis, J. Lydon, C. Daraio, and J. Yang.
    Phys. Rev. E 93 (2016) 052203 article (preprint)
  25. Conical wave propagation and diffraction in two-dimensional hexagonally packed granular lattices
    C. Chong, P. G. Kevrekidis, M. J. Ablowitz, and Yi-Ping Ma
    Phys. Rev. E 93 (2016) 012909 article (preprint)
  26. Formation of rarefaction waves in origami-based metamaterials
    H. Yasuda, C. Chong, E. G. Charalampidis, P.G. Kevrekidis and J. Yang
    Phys. Rev. E 93 (2016) 043004 article (preprint)
  27. Highly nonlinear wave propagation in elastic woodpile periodic structures
    E. Kim, F. Li, C. Chong, G. Theocharis, J. Yang and P.G. Kevrekidis
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 114 (2015) 118002 article (preprint)
  28. Time-periodic solutions of driven-damped trimer granular crystals
    E. G. Charalampidis, F. Li, C. Chong, J. Yang and P. G. Kevrekidis
    Mathematical Problems in Engineering 2015 (2015) 830978 (article)
  29. Sine-Gordon Equation:From Discrete to Continuum
    M. Chirilus-Bruckner, C. Chong, J. Cuevas, P.G. Kevrekidis.
    Chapter 2 of The sine-Gordon Model and its Applications, Springer Series on Nonlinear Systems and Complexity, Vol. 10 (2014) chapter (preprint)
  30. Wave transmission in time- and space-variant helicoidal phononic crystals
    F. Li, C. Chong, J. Yang, P. G. Kevrekidis, and C. Daraio
    Phys. Rev. E 90 (2014) 053201 article (preprint)
  31. Damped-driven granular crystals: An ideal playground for dark breathers and multibreathers
    C. Chong, F. Li, J. Yang, M.O. Williams, I.G. Kevrekidis, P.G. Kevrekidis, and C. Daraio
    Phys. Rev. E 89 (2014) 032924 article (preprint)
  32. Justification of leading order quasicontinuum approximations of strongly nonlinear lattices
    C. Chong, P.G. Kevrekidis and G. Schneider.
    Disc. Cont. Dyn. Sys. A 34 (2014) 3403-3418 article (preprint)
  33. Traveling waves in 2D hexagonal granular crystal lattices
    A. Leonard, C. Chong, P.G. Kevrekidis and C. Daraio
    Granular Matter 16 (2014) 531-542 article (preprint)
  34. Numerical evidence for the validity of the NLS approximation in systems with quasilinear quadratic nonlinearities.
    C. Chong and G. Schneider.
    ZAMM 93 (2013) 688-696 (article)
  35. Dark Breathers in Granular Crystals
    C. Chong, P.G. Kevrekidis, G. Theocharis, and C. Daraio
    Phys. Rev. E 87 (2013) 042202 article (preprint)
  36. Rigorous description of macroscopic wave packets in infinite periodic chains of coupled oscillators by modulation equations.
    M. Chirilus-Bruckner, C. Chong, O. Prill and G. Schneider.
    Disc. Cont. Dyn. Sys. S 5 (2012) 879-901, article (open-access).
  37. On the validity of the variational approximation in discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equations.
    C. Chong, D.E. Pelinovsky and G. Schneider.
    Physica D 241 (2011) 115-124, article (preprint).
  38. Validity of the KdV equation in the case of resonances arising in periodic media.
    C. Chong and G. Schneider.
    J. Math. Anal. Appl. 383 (2011) 330-336, article (preprint).
  39. Variational approximations in nonlinear Schrödinger lattices with next-nearest-neighbor couplings.
    C. Chong, R. Carretero-González, B.A. Malomed and P.G. Kevrekidis.
    Physica D 240 (2011) 1205-1212, article (preprint).
  40. Variational approximations of bifurcations of asymmetric solitons in cubic-quintic nonlinear Schrödinger lattices.
    C. Chong and D.E. Pelinovsky.
    Disc. Cont. Dyn. Sys. S 4 (2011) 1019-1031, article
  41. Standing generalized modulating pulse solutions for a nonlinear wave equation in periodic media.
    V. Lescarret, C. Blank, M. Chirilus-Bruckner, C. Chong and G. Schneider.
    Nonlinearity 22 (2009) 1869-1898, article (preprint).
  42. Multistable solitons in higher-dimensional cubic-quintic nonlinear Schrödinger lattices.
    C. Chong, R. Carretero-González, B.A. Malomed and P.G. Kevrekidis.
    Physica D 238 (2009) 126-136, article (preprint).
  43. Separation of internal and interaction dynamics for NLS-described wave packets with different carrier waves.
    M. Chirilus-Bruckner, C. Chong, G. Schneider and H. Uecker.
    J. Math. Anal. Appl. 347 (2008) 304-314, article (preprint).
  44. A remark about the justification of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation in quadratic spatially periodic media.
    C. Blank, M. Chirilus-Bruckner, C. Chong, V. Lescarret, G. Schneider and H. Uecker.
    ZAMP 59 (2008) 1-4, article (preprint).
  45. Multistable solitons of the cubic-quintic discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation.
    R. Carretero-González, J.D. Talley, C. Chong and B.A. Malomed.
    Physica D 216 (2006) 77-89, article (preprint).