Chains of Viscoelastic Spheres
Statistical Mechanics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Given a chain of viscoelastic spheres with fixed masses of the first and last particles. We raise the question: How to chose the masses of the other particles of the chain to assure maximal energy transfer? The results are compared with a chain of particles for which a constant coefficient of restitution is assumed. Our simple example shows that the assumption of viscoelastic particle properties has not only important consequences for very large systems (see [1]) but leads also to qualitative changes in small systems as compared with particles interacting via a constant restitution coefficient.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0204107,
title = {Chains of Viscoelastic Spheres},
author = {Thorsten Poeschel and Nikolai V. Brilliantov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0204107},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
11 pages, 6 figures