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An Analog Macroscopic Technique for Studying Molecular Hydrodynamic Processes in Dense Gases and Liquids
Published on: December 4, 2017
Free cooling of the one-dimensional wet granular gas
V Yu Zaburdaev1, M Brinkmann, S Herminghaus
1MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Bunsenstrasse 10, 37073 Göttingen, Germany. Vasily.Zaburdaev@ds.mpg.de
Abstract:
The free cooling behavior of a wet granular gas is studied in one dimension. We employ a particularly simple model system in which the interaction of wet grains is characterized by a fixed energy loss assigned to each collision. Macroscopic laws of energy dissipation and cluster formation are studied on the basis of numerical simulations and mean-field analytical calculations. We find a number of remarkable scaling properties which may shed light on earlier unexplained results for related systems.
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