Power-law velocity distributions in granular gases

Details Power-law velocity distributions in granular gases Power-law velocity distributions in granular gases

2005-04-07

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0504187v1

Phys. Rev. E 72, 021302 (2005)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

11 pages, 9 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.72.021302

We report a general class of steady and transient states of granular gases. We find that the kinetic theory of inelastic gases admits stationary solutions with a power-law velocity distribution, f(v) ~ v^(-sigma). The exponent sigma is found analytically and depends on the spatial dimension, the degree of inelasticity, and the homogeneity degree of the collision rate. Driven steady-states, with the same power-law tail and a cut-off can be maintained by injecting energy at a large velocity scale, which then cascades to smaller velocities where it is dissipated. Associated with these steady-states are freely cooling time-dependent states for which the cut-off decreases and the velocity distribution is self-similar.

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