Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2006-11-15
Phys. Rev. E vol. 75, 031305 (2007).
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
9 pages, 8 figures; typos removed
Scientific paper
We study the effect of pre-collisional velocity correlations on granular shear flow by molecular dynamics simulations of the inelastic hard sphere system. Comparison of the simulations with the kinetic theory reveals that the theory overestimates both the energy dissipation rate and the normal stress in the dense flow region. We find that the relative normal velocity of colliding particles is smaller than that expected from random collisions, and the discrepancies in the dissipation and the normal stress can be adjusted by introducing the idea of the collisional temperature, from which we conclude that the velocity correlation neglected in the kinetic theory is responsible for the discrepancies. Our analysis of the distributions of the pre-collisional velocity suggests that the correlation grows through multiple inelastic collisions during the time scale of the inverse of the shear rate. As for the shear stress, the discrepancy is also found in the dense region, but it depends strongly on the particle inelasticity.
Mitarai Namiko
Nakanishi Hiizu
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