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We extend the dynamic van der Waals model introduced by A. Onuki [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 054501 (2005)] to the description of cohesive granular flows under a plane shear to study their hydrodynamic instabilities. Numerically solving the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-26 Kuniyasu Saitoh , Satoshi Takada , Hisao Hayakawa

Uniform Shear Flow is a prototype nonequilibrium state admitting detailed study at both the macroscopic and microscopic levels via theory and computer simulation. It is shown that the hydrodynamic equations for this state have a long…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Mirim Lee , James W. Dufty , José M. Montanero , Andrés Santos , James F. Lutsko

We study the transport properties of an impurity in a sheared granular gas, in the framework of the Boltzmann equation for inelastic Maxwell models. We investigate here the impact of a nonequilibrium phase transition found in such systems,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-15 Vicente Garzó , Emmanuel Trizac

A detailed treatment of the classical Chapman-Enskog derivation of hydrodynamics is given in the framework of Grad's moment equations. Grad's systems are considered as the minimal kinetic models where the Chapman-Enskog method can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-10-23 Iliya V. Karlin , Alexander N. Gorban

In the preceding paper, linear response methods have been applied to obtain formally exact expressions for the parameters of Navier-Stokes order hydrodynamics. The analysis there is general, applying to both normal and granular fluids with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Aparna Baskaran , James W. Dufty , J. Javier Brey

Segregation induced by a thermal gradient of an impurity in a driven low-density granular gas is studied. The system is enclosed between two parallel walls from which we input thermal energy to the gas. We study here steady states occurring…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-05-15 Francisco Vega Reyes , Vicente Garzó , Nagi Khalil

In this tutorial, a derivation of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) valid beyond the usual ideal gas approximation is presented. Non-equilibrium thermodynamics is used to obtain conservation equations and linear constitutive relations. When…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-21 Jarett LeVan , Scott Baalrud

We prove that smooth solutions of non-ideal (viscous and resistive) incompressible magnetohydrodynamic equations satisfy a stochastic law of flux conservation. This property involves an ensemble of surfaces obtained from a given, fixed…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Gregory L. Eyink

Non-Newtonian transport properties of a dilute gas of inelastic hard spheres immersed in a molecular gas are determined. We assume that the granular gas is sufficiently rarefied and hence, the state of the molecular gas is not disturbed by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-05 Rubén Gómez González , Moisés García Chamorro , Vicente Garzó

For more than 150 years the Navier-Stokes equations for thermodynamically quasi-equilibrium flows have been the cornerstone of modern computational fluid dynamics that underpins new fluid technologies. However, the applicable regime of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-01-11 Jianping Meng , Nishanth Dongari , Jason M. Reese , Yonghao Zhang

Generalization of the Chapman-Enskog method to the case of large gradients of hydrodynamic velocity allowed us to obtain an integral (over spatial coordinates) representation of the viscous stress tensor in the Navier-Stokes equation. In…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-14 A. B. Kukushkin

Based on the exact solution of Boltzmann kinetic equation in the relaxation-time approximation, the precision of the two most recent formulations of relativistic second-order non-conformal viscous hydrodynamics (14-moment approximation and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Radoslaw Ryblewski

The transport coefficients of a dilute classical gas in the presence of a drag force proportional to the velocity of the particle are determined from the Boltzmann equation. The viscous drag force could model the friction of solid particles…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 José Carlos Pérez-Fuentes , Vicente Garzó

A novel route to instabilities and turbulence in fluid and plasma flows is presented in kinetic Vlasov-Maxwell model. New kind of flow instabilities is shown to arise due to the availability of new kinetic energy sources which are absent in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Dhurjati Prasad Datta , Sudip Sen

A kinetic and hydrodynamic descriptions are developed in order to analyze the instabilities of a granular gas in the presence of a gravitational field. In the kinetic description the Boltzmann equation is coupled with the Poisson equation,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-26 Gilberto Medeiros Kremer

The system of Navier--Stokes--Fourier equations is one of the most celebrated systems of equations in modern science. It describes dynamics of fluids in the limit when gradients of density, velocity and temperature are sufficiently small,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-03 A. N. Gorban , I. V. Karlin

Dynamics of inelastic gases are studied within the framework of random collision processes. The corresponding Boltzmann equation with uniform collision rates is solved analytically for gases, impurities, and mixtures. Generally, the energy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Ben-Naim , P. L. Krapivsky

Continuum-based theories, such as Navier-Stokes equations, have been considered inappropriate for flows under nonequilibrium conditions. In part, it is due to the lack of rotational degrees of freedom in the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-10 Mohamed M. Ahmed , Mohamad I. Cheikh , James Chen

Granular gases demand models capable of capturing their distinct characteristics. The widely employed inelastic hard-sphere model (IHSM) introduces complexities that are compounded when incorporating realistic features like surface…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-21 Andrés Santos , Gilberto M. Kremer

Tsallis has proposed a generalization of Boltzmann-Gibbs thermostatistics by introducing a family of generalized nonextensive entropy functionals with a single parameter $q$. These reduce to the extensive Boltzmann-Gibbs form for $q=1$, but…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bruce M. Boghosian