Dynamics of inelastically colliding rough spheres: Relaxation of translational and rotational energy

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1997-08-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9708093v3

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

5 pages, RevTeX, 2 eps figures, slightly expanded discussion, new figures with dimensionless units, added references, accepted

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.56.R6275

We study the exchange of kinetic energy between translational and rotational degrees of freedom for inelastic collisions of rough spheres. Even if equipartition holds in the initial state it is immediately destroyed by collisions. The simplest generalisation of the homogeneous cooling state allows for two temperatures, characterizing translational and rotational degrees of freedom separately. For times larger than a crossover frequency, which is determined by the Enskog frequency and the initial temperature, both energies decay algebraically like $t^{-2}$ with a fixed ratio of amplitudes, different from one.

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