Contact of Viscoelastic Spheres
Materials Science
2007-05-23 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
In a recent paper an implicit equation for contacting viscoelastic spheres was derived (Brilliantov et al. PRE 53, 5382 (1996)). Integrating this equation it can be shown that the coefficient of normal restitution depends on the impact velocity as 1-\epsilon\sim g^{1/5}.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0203470,
title = {Contact of Viscoelastic Spheres},
author = {Thomas Schwager and Thorsten Poeschel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0203470},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
7 pages, 3 figures