Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2005-06-10
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
15 pages, 1 figure
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.1889266
We study the diffusion of tracers (self-diffusion) in a homogeneously cooling gas of dissipative particles, using the Green-Kubo relation and the Chapman-Enskog approach. The dissipative particle collisions are described by the coefficient of restitution $\epsilon$ which for realistic material properties depends on the impact velocity. First, we consider self-diffusion using a constant coefficient of restitution, $\epsilon=$const, as frequently used to simplify the analysis. Second, self-diffusion is studied for a simplified (stepwise) dependence of $\epsilon$ on the impact velocity. Finally, diffusion is considered for gases of realistic viscoelastic particles. We find that for $\epsilon=$const both methods lead to the same result for the self-diffusion coefficient. For the case of impact-velocity dependent coefficients of restitution, the Green-Kubo method is, however, either restrictive or too complicated for practical application, therefore we compute the diffusion coefficient using the Chapman-Enskog method. We conclude that in application to granular gases, the Chapman-Enskog approach is preferable for deriving kinetic coefficients.
Brilliantov Nikolai V.
Poeschel Thorsten
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