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An Analog Macroscopic Technique for Studying Molecular Hydrodynamic Processes in Dense Gases and Liquids
Published on: December 4, 2017
Statistics of a two-dimensional immersed granular gas magnetically forced in volume
Jean-Baptiste Gorce1, Eric Falcon1
1Université Paris Cité, CNRS, MSC, UMR 7057, F-75013 Paris, France.
Abstract:
We present an experimental study of the dynamics of a set of magnets within a fluid in which a remote torque applied by a vertical oscillating magnetic field transfers angular momentum to individual magnets. This system differs from previous experimental studies of granular gas where the energy is injected by vibrating the boundaries. Here, we do not observe any cluster formation, orientational correlation and equipartition of the energy. The magnets' linear velocity distributions are stretched exponentials, similar to three-dimensional boundary-forced dry granular gas systems, but the exponent does not depend on the number of magnets. The value of the exponent of the stretched exponential distributions is close to the value of 3/2 previously derived theoretically. Our results also show that the conversion rate of angular momentum into linear momentum during the collisions controls the dynamics of this homogenously forced granular gas. We report the differences among this homogeneously forced granular gas, ideal gas, and nonequilibrium boundary-forced dissipative granular gas.
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