Kinetics of Fragmenting Freely Evolving Granular Gases

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2003-03-03

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0303037v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

22 pages, 8 figures

Scientific paper

We investigate the effect of fragmentation on the homogeneous free cooling of inelastic hard spheres, using Boltzmann kinetic theory and Direct Monte Carlo simulations. We analyze in detail a model where dissipative collisions may subsequently lead to a break-up of the grains. With a given probability, two off-springs are then created from one of the two colliding partners, with conservation of mass, momentum and kinetic energy. We observe a scaling regime characterized by a single collisional average, that quantifies the deviations from Gaussian behaviour for the joint size and velocity distribution function. We also discuss the possibility of a catastrophe whereby the number of particles diverges in a finite time. This phenomenon appears correlated to a ``shattering'' transition marked by a delta singularity at vanishingly small grains for the rescaled size distribution.

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