On the velocity distributions of granular gases |
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Authors: | A.M.M. Polito A. Figueiredo |
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Affiliation: | Instituto de Física, Universidade de Brasília, Campus Universitario Darcy Ribeiro, Asa Norte CP, 04455, 70919-970 Brasília, Brazil |
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Abstract: | We present a new approach to determine velocity distributions in granular gases to improve the Sonine polynomial expansion of the velocity distribution function, at higher inelasticities, for the homogeneous cooling regime of inelastic hard spheres. The perturbative consistency is recovered using a new set of dynamical variables based on the characteristic function and we illustrate our approach by computing the first four Sonine coefficients for moderate and high inelasticities. The analytical coefficients are compared with molecular dynamics simulations results and with a previous approach by Huthmann et al. |
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Keywords: | 64.70.qd 64.60.De 05.20.Gg |
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