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We study the long time behavior of light particles, e.g. an electron swarm in which Coulomb interactions are unimportant, subjected to an external field and elastic collisions with an inert neutral gas. The time evolution of the velocity…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. L. Lebowitz , A. Rokhlenko

Theory of granular dissipative gas is discussed based on Boltzmann's equation and in view of recent experimental results in micro-gravity during few CNES and ESA campaigns [9,11]. It is recalled that the Boltzmann's distribution is a steady…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Evesque

The Navier-Stokes transport coefficients for a granular gas of smooth inelastic hard disks or spheres are determined from the inelastic Boltzmann equation by means of Grad's moment method. The shear viscosity $\eta$, the thermal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-12 V. Garzó

The Korteweg-de Vries and Benjamin-Ono nonlinear wave equations can describe solitary waves, all of which propagate in the same direction and which emerge from collisions with their shapes unchanged. There are technical challenges to giving…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-11-01 Brett Altschul

We find a general class of nontrivial stationary states in inelastic gases where, due to dissipation, energy is transfered from large velocity scales to small velocity scales. These steady-states exist for arbitrary collision rules and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Ben-Naim , J. Machta

The numerical solutions of nonlocal and local Boltzmann kinetic equations for the simulation of peripheral and central heavy ion reactions are compared. The experimental finding of enhancement of mid-rapidity matter shows the necessity to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Klaus Morawetz

The aim of this work is to establish a linear instability criterium of stationary solutions for the Korteweg-de Vries model on a star graph with a structure represented by a finite collections of semi-infinite edges. By considering a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Jaime Angulo Pava , Márcio Cavalcante

We present a systematic derivation of a model based on the central moment lattice Boltzmann equation that rigorously maintains Galilean invariance of forces to simulate inertial frame independent flow fields. In this regard, the central…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-02-29 Kannan N. Premnath , Sanjoy Banerjee

We explore the velocity distributions in a vibrated binary granular gas system, focusing on how these distributions are influenced by the coefficient of restitution (CoR) and the inelasticity of particle collisions. Through molecular…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-07 Rameez Farooq Shah , Syed Rashid Ahmad

The behaviour of the lower order moments of the velocity distribution function for a system of inelastic granular disks driven by vertical vibrations is studied using a kinetic theory. A perturbative kinetic theory for vibro-fluidised beds…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 P Sunthar , V Kumaran

The velocity distribution function of the steady-state Boltzmann equation for hard-core molecules in the presence of a temperature gradient has been obtained explicitly to second order in density and the temperature gradient. Some…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Kim Hyeon-Deuk , Hisao Hayakawa

A linear stability analysis of the hydrodynamic equations with respect to the homogeneous cooling state is carried out to identify the conditions for stability of a granular gas of rough hard spheres. The description is based on the results…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-05-10 Vicente Garzó , Andrés Santos , Gilberto M. Kremer

The paper presents a solution to the Boltzmann kinetic equation based on the construction of its discrete conservative model. Discrete analogue of the collision integral is presented as a contraction of a tensor, which is independent from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-07-04 George Arabuli

We study stochastic motion under a nonlinear frictional force that levels off with increasing velocity. Specifically, our frictional force is of the so-called Coulomb-tanh type. At small speed, it increases approximately linearly with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-13 Theo Lequy , Andreas M. Menzel

The Goldstein-Taylor equations can be thought of as a simplified version of a BGK system, where the velocity variable is constricted to a discrete set of values. It is intimately related to turbulent fluid motion and the telegrapher's…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Anton Arnold , Amit Einav , Beatrice Signorello , Tobias Wöhrer

The transport coefficients of a dilute gas of inelastic hard spheres immersed in a molecular gas are determined. We assume that the number density of the granular gas is much smaller than that of the surrounding molecular gas, so that the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-07 Rubén Gómez González , Vicente Garzó

A kinetic model for the Boltzmann equation is proposed and explored as a practical means to investigate the properties of a dilute granular gas. It is shown that all spatially homogeneous initial distributions approach a universal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 James W. Dufty , Aparna Baskaran , Lorena Zogaib

The Boltzmann equation is a powerful theoretical tool for modeling the collective dynamics of quantum many-body systems subject to external perturbations. Analysis of the equation gives access to linear response properties including…

We consider an application of modification of our variational-wavelet approach to some nonlinear collective model of beam/plasma physics: Vlasov/Boltzmann-like reduction from general BBGKY hierachy related to modeling of propagation of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Antonina N. Fedorova , Michael G. Zeitlin

The nature of the velocity distribution of a driven granular gas, though well studied, is unknown as to whether it is universal or not, and if universal what it is. We determine the tails of the steady state velocity distribution of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-05 V. V. Prasad , Dibyendu Das , Sanjib Sabhapandit , R. Rajesh