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Published on: November 18, 2015
Hydrodynamic theory for granular gases
1Departamento de Fisica, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile and CECAM, ENS-Lyon, 46 Allee d'Italie, 69007 Lyon, France.
Abstract:
A granular gas subjected to a permanent injection of energy is described by means of hydrodynamic equations derived from a moment expansion method. The method uses as reference function not a Maxwellian distribution f(M) but a distribution f(0)=Phif(M), such that Phi adds a fourth cumulant kappa to the velocity distribution. The formalism is applied to a stationary conductive case showing that the theory fits extraordinarily well the results coming from our Newtonian molecular dynamic simulations once we determine kappa as a function of the inelasticity of the particle-particle collisions. The shape of kappa is independent of the size N of the system.
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