| Issue |
EPL
Volume 80, Number 1, October 2007
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 14007 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/80/14007 | |
| Published online | 12 September 2007 | |
Evaporation transition in vibro-fluidized granular matter
1
Experimental Physics, Saarland University - D-66123, Saarbücken, Germany
2
Centro Atómico Bariloche, Instituto Balseiro, CONICET - 8400, Bariloche, Argentina
3
The Abdus Salam ICTP - 34014 Trieste, Italy
Received:
10
May
2007
Accepted:
17
August
2007
Using laser facility, we investigate the speed distribution in the gas phase of a vibrated 3D granular matter bed. Invoking a volume-exclusion principle in a dissipative theory we present a kinetic model to explain the non-Maxwellian distribution, the mean free path and its associated granular-matter global temperature. We reveal that the fluidized gap is a lattice-gas with a constant packing factor.
PACS: 45.70.-n – Granular systems / 05.40.-a – Fluctuation phenomena, random processes, noise, and Brownian motion / 05.70.Ln – Nonequilibrium and irreversible thermodynamics
© Europhysics Letters Association, 2007
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