The multiple dependence of the velocity distributions of granular gases on the simulation conditions

Antony M.M. Polito, Annibal Figueiredo, Luis S. Costa, Tarcísio M. da Rocha Filho and Frederico V. Prudente

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2006, vol. 371, issue 1, 50-53

Abstract: In this work we study the dissipative dynamics of a system of smooth hard spheres with a constant restitution coefficient and small number of particles in the homogeneous cooling regime. We focus on the velocity distribution from simulations in the molecular dynamics approach. The main goal of this paper is to study the multiple dependence of these stationary states on the number of particles, density regimes and boundary conditions for a fixed restitution coefficient and the existence of a limit state in the thermodynamic limit. For this we present a methodology based on the application of the characteristic function technique and the W function, introduced by Lévy to measure the distance of distributions from the Gaussian.

Keywords: Granular systems; Homogeneous cooling; Characteristic function (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378437106005425
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only. Journal offers the option of making the article available online on Science direct for a fee of $3,000

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:371:y:2006:i:1:p:50-53

DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2006.04.097

Access Statistics for this article

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications is currently edited by K. A. Dawson, J. O. Indekeu, H.E. Stanley and C. Tsallis

More articles in Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().