| Issue |
EPL
Volume 77, Number 6, March 2007
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 64001 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/77/64001 | |
| Published online | 13 March 2007 | |
Fragmenting granular gases
Departament de Física Fonamental, Universitat de Barcelona - Carrer Martí i Franqués 1, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain
Received:
30
June
2006
Accepted:
26
January
2007
We study the dynamics of granular gases which fragment due to their collisions. We have developed a kinetic model that accounts for the correlations between grains' size and velocity at collisions. We analyze how the fragmentation events taking place at collisions affect the growth in the number of grains, and also which distribution of grain' sizes they give rise to. We describe the effects that the mechanisms which control the fragmentation process have on the kinetics of the granular mixture, and have characterized the different kinetic regimes they give rise to, depending on the asymptotic behavior of the fragmentation probability. In these different scenarios the size and velocity distributions display also distinct features, and hence can be used to understand the physical processes in fragmenting systems.
PACS: 46.50.+a – Fracture mechanics, fatigue and cracks / 45.70.-n – Granular systems / 05.20.Dd – Kinetic theory
© Europhysics Letters Association, 2007
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