Third and fourth degree collisional moments for inelastic Maxwell models

Details Third and fourth degree collisional moments for inelastic Maxwell models Third and fourth degree collisional moments for inelastic Maxwell models

2007-03-27

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0703704v2

J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 40, 14927-14943 (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

15 pages, 3 figures; v2: addition of two new references

Scientific paper

10.1088/1751-8113/40/50/002

The third and fourth degree collisional moments for $d$-dimensional inelastic Maxwell models are exactly evaluated in terms of the velocity moments, with explicit expressions for the associated eigenvalues and cross coefficients as functions of the coefficient of normal restitution. The results are applied to the analysis of the time evolution of the moments (scaled with the thermal speed) in the free cooling problem. It is observed that the characteristic relaxation time toward the homogeneous cooling state decreases as the anisotropy of the corresponding moment increases. In particular, in contrast to what happens in the one-dimensional case, all the anisotropic moments of degree equal to or less than four vanish in the homogeneous cooling state for $d\geq 2$.

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