Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2006-08-29
in Rarefied Gas Dynamics: 25th International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics, M. S.Ivanov and A. K.Rebrov, eds. (Publishing
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
6 pages, 2 figures; presented in the 25th International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics (Saint-Petersburg, Russia, July 21-
Scientific paper
The model of inelastic Maxwell particles (IMP) allows one to derive some exact results which show the strong influence of inelasticity on the nonequilibrium properties of a granular gas. The aim of this work is to propose a simple model kinetic equation that preserves the most relevant properties of the Boltzmann equation (BE) for IMP and reduces to the BGK kinetic model in the elastic limit. In the proposed kinetic model the collision operator is replaced by a relaxation-time term toward a reference Maxwellian distribution plus a term representing the action of a friction force. It contains three parameters (the relaxation rate, the effective temperature of the reference Maxwellian, and the friction coefficient) which are determined by imposing consistency with basic exact properties of the BE for IMP. As a consequence, the kinetic model reproduces the true shear viscosity and predicts accurate expressions for the transport coefficients associated with the heat flux. The model can be exactly solved for the homogeneous cooling state, the solution exhibiting an algebraic high-energy tail with an exponent in fair agreement with the correct one.
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