Random inelasticity and velocity fluctuations in a driven granular gas

Details Random inelasticity and velocity fluctuations in a driven granular gas Random inelasticity and velocity fluctuations in a driven granular gas

2002-05-27

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0205546v2

Eur. Phys. J E 11 (2003) 99

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

5 pages, 5 eps figures

Scientific paper

10.1140/epje/i2002-10149-2

We analyze the deviations from Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics found in recent experiments studying velocity distributions in two-dimensional granular gases driven into a non-equilibrium stationary state by a strong vertical vibration. We show that in its simplest version, the ``stochastic thermostat'' model of heated inelastic hard spheres, contrary to what has been hitherto stated, is incompatible with the experimental data, although predicting a reminiscent high velocity stretched exponential behavior with an exponent 3/2. The experimental observations lead to refine a recently proposed random restitution coefficient model. Very good agreement is then found with experimental velocity distributions within this framework, which appears self-consistent and further provides relevant probes to investigate the universality of the velocity statistics.

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