Hysteretic clustering in granular gas
Chaotic Dynamics
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
Granular material is vibro-fluidized in N=2 and N=3 connected compartments, respectively. For sufficiently strong shaking the granular gas is equi-partitioned, but if the shaking intensity is lowered, the gas clusters in one compartment. The phase transition towards the clustered state is of 2nd order for N=2 and of 1st order for N=3. In particular, the latter is hysteretic. The experimental findings are accounted for within a dynamical model that exactly has the above properties.
Cite
@article{arxiv.nlin/0103020,
title = {Hysteretic clustering in granular gas},
author = {Ko van der Weele and Devaraj van der Meer and Michel Versluis and Detlef Lohse},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0103020},
year = {2009}
}