Violation of Molecular Chaos in dissipative gases
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
Numerical simulations of a dissipative hard sphere gas reveal a dependence of the cooling rate on correlation of the particle velocities due to inelastic collisions. We propose a coefficient which characterizes the velocity correlations in the two-particle velocity distribution function and express the temperature decay rate in terms of this coefficient. The analytical results are compared with numerics.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0210058,
title = {Violation of Molecular Chaos in dissipative gases},
author = {Thorsten Poeschel and Nikolai V. Brilliantov and Thomas Schwager},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0210058},
year = {2009}
}
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11 pages, 4 figures