Anisotropic dynamics in a shaken granular dimer gas experiment
Soft Condensed Matter
2013-05-29 v3
Abstract
The dynamics, velocity fluctuations, and particle-plate interactions for a 2D granular gas of shaken, non-spherical particles are studied experimentally. The experiment consists of a horizontal plate that is vertically oscillated to drive the dynamics of macroscopic dimers, spherical pairs that are loosely connected by a rod that couple the interaction each of the spheres has with the shaking plate. The extended nature of the particles results in more than one energy-momentum transfer between the plate and each dimer per shaking cycle. This complex interaction results in anisotropic behavior for the dimer that is a function of the shaking parameters.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0306646,
title = {Anisotropic dynamics in a shaken granular dimer gas experiment},
author = {J. Atwell and J. S. Olafsen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0306646},
year = {2013}
}
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10 pages and 5 figures