Universal distribution of masses in a one-dimensional sticky gas

Jaroslaw Piasecki

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1992, vol. 190, issue 1, 95-103

Abstract: Agglomeration of particles by perfectly inelastic collisions is studied in the case of a one-dimensional gas. Particles move freely between collisions. Both mass and momentum are conserved at binary encounters. It is shown that under a weak mean-field like hypothesis, admitting the existence of correlations between the velocities of colliding particles, the dynamics drives the system towards a scaling regime with a universal exponential distribution of masses.

Date: 1992
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(92)90079-6

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