A kinetic approach to granular gases

Details A kinetic approach to granular gases A kinetic approach to granular gases

1998-10-06

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9810059v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

33 pages including 25 figures, submitted to Phys.Rev.E

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.59.5582

We address the problem of the so-called ``granular gases'', i.e. gases of massive particles in rapid movement undergoing inelastic collisions. We introduce a class of models of driven granular gases for which the stationary state is the result of the balance between the dissipation and the random forces which inject energies. These models exhibit a genuine thermodynamic limit, i.e. at fixed density the mean values of kinetic energy and dissipated energy per particle are independent of the number $N$ of particles, for large values of $N$. One has two regimes: when the typical relaxation time $\tau$ of the driving Brownian process is small compared with the mean collision time $\tau_c$ the spatial density is nearly homogeneous and the velocity probability distribution is gaussian. In the opposite limit $\tau \gg \tau_c$ one has strong spatial clustering, with a fractal distribution of particles, and the velocity probability distribution strongly deviates from the gaussian one. Simulations performed in one and two dimensions under the {\it Stosszahlansatz} Boltzmann approximation confirm the scenario. Furthermore we analyze the instabilities bringing to the spatial and the velocity clusterization. Firstly, in the framework of a mean-field model, we explain how the existence of the inelasticity can bring to a spatial clusterization; on the other side we discuss, in the framework of a Langevin dynamics treating the collisions in a mean-field way, how a non-gaussian distribution of velocity can arise. The comparison between the numerical and the analytical results exhibits an excellent agreement.

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