Pöschel T, Brilliantov NV, Formella A (2006)
Publication Language: English
Publication Status: Published
Publication Type: Journal article, Original article
Publication year: 2006
Publisher: American Physical Society
Book Volume: 74
Article Number: 041302
Journal Issue: 4
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.74.041302
The velocity distribution function of granular gases in the homogeneous cooling state as well as some heated granular gases decays for large velocities as fexp(-const×v). That is, its high-energy tail is overpopulated as compared with the Maxwell distribution. At the present time, there is no theory to describe the influence of the tail on the kinetic characteristics of granular gases. We develop an approach to quantify the overpopulated tail and analyze its impact on granular gas properties, in particular on the cooling coefficient. We observe and explain anomalously slow relaxation of the velocity distribution function to its steady state. © 2006 The American Physical Society.
APA:
Pöschel, T., Brilliantov, N.V., & Formella, A. (2006). Impact of high-energy tails on granular gas properties. Physical Review E, 74(4). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.74.041302
MLA:
Pöschel, Thorsten, Nikolai V. Brilliantov, and Arno Formella. "Impact of high-energy tails on granular gas properties." Physical Review E 74.4 (2006).
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