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An Analog Macroscopic Technique for Studying Molecular Hydrodynamic Processes in Dense Gases and Liquids
Published on: December 4, 2017
Granular clustering in a hydrodynamic simulation
1James Franck Institute and Department of Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
|October 26, 2005
Abstract:
We examine the hydrodynamics of a granular gas using numerical simulation. We demonstrate the appearance of shearing and clustering instabilities predicted by linear stability analysis, and show that their appearance is directly related to the inelasticity of collisions in the material. We discuss the rate at which these instabilities arise and the manner in which clusters grow and merge.
