Breaking down the Fermi acceleration with inelastic collisions
Chaotic Dynamics
2009-03-11 v1
Abstract
The phenomenon of Fermi acceleration is addressed for a dissipative bouncing ball model with external stochastic perturbation. It is shown that the introduction of energy dissipation (inelastic collisions of the particle with the moving wall) is a sufficient condition to break down the process of Fermi acceleration. The phase transition from bounded to unbounded energy growth in the limit of vanishing dissipation is characterized.
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@article{arxiv.0903.1838,
title = {Breaking down the Fermi acceleration with inelastic collisions},
author = {Edson D. Leonel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.1838},
year = {2009}
}
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