Energy Dissipation and Trapping of Particles Moving on a Rough Surface

Details Energy Dissipation and Trapping of Particles Moving on a Rough Surface Energy Dissipation and Trapping of Particles Moving on a Rough Surface

1997-08-19

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9708136v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

8 pages RevTeX, 12 Postscript figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.57.4743

We report an experimental, numerical and theoretical study of the motion of a ball on a rough inclined surface. The control parameters are $D$, the diameter of the ball, $\theta$, the inclination angle of the rough surface and $E_{ki}$, the initial kinetic energy. When the angle of inclination is larger than some critical value, $\theta>\theta_{T}$, the ball moves at a constant average velocity which is independent of the initial conditions. For an angle $\theta < \theta_{T}$, the balls are trapped after moving a certain distance. The dependence of the travelled distances on $E_{ki}$, $D$ and $\theta$. is analysed. The existence of two kinds of mechanisms of dissipation is thus brought to light. We find that for high initial velocities the friction force is constant. As the velocity decreases below a certain threshold the friction becomes viscous.

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