Equation of State of Wet Granular Matter

Details Equation of State of Wet Granular Matter Equation of State of Wet Granular Matter

2007-08-27

arxiv.org/abs/0708.3491v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

29 pages, 20 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.77.011306

A theory is derived for the nonequilibrium probability currents of the capillary interaction which determines the pair correlation function near contact. This yields an analytic expression for the equation of state, P = P(N/V,T), of wet granular matter for D=2 dimensions, valid in the complete density range from gas to jamming. Driven wet granular matter exhibits a van-der-Waals-like unstable branch at granular temperatures T> T, is of relevance for aggregation in general, simulations have been performed which show very good agreement with the theoretically predicted coordination K of capillary bonds as a function of the bond length s_crit. This result implies that particles that stick at the surface, s_crit=0, form isostatic clusters.

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