Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
1999-11-14
Phys.Rev.E, Vol.61, 5573 (2000)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
15 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.61.5573
The velocity distribution in a homogeneously cooling granular gas has been studied in the viscoelastic regime when the restitution coefficient of colliding particles depends on the impact velocity. We show that for viscoelastic particles the simple scaling hypothesis is violated, i.e., that the time dependence of the velocity distribution does not scale with the mean square velocity as in the case of particles interacting via a constant restitution coefficient. The deviation from the Maxwellian distribution does not depend on time monotonously. For the case of small dissipation we detected two regimes of evolution of the velocity distribution function: Starting from the initial Maxwellian distribution, the deviation first increases with time on a collision time-scale saturating at some maximal value; then it decays to zero on much larger time-scale which corresponds to the temperature relaxation. For larger values of the dissipation parameter there appears an additional intermediate relaxation regime. Analytical calculations for small dissipation agrees well with the results of a numerical analysis.
Brilliantov Nikolai V.
Poeschel Thorsten
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