On the first Sonine correction for granular gases

DOI10.1016/S0378-4371(03)00593-4zbMATH Open1056.82517arXivcond-mat/0302140OpenAlexW3105487991MaRDI QIDQ1409094FDOQ1409094

Authors: François Coppex, M. Droz, Emmanuel Trizac, Jaroslaw Piasecki 

Publication date: 5 October 2003

Published in: Physica A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the velocity distribution for a granular gas of inelastic hard spheres described by the Boltzmann equation. We investigate both the free of forcing case and a system heated by a stochastic force. We propose a new method to compute the first correction to Gaussian behavior in a Sonine polynomial expansion quantified by the fourth cumulant $a_2$. Our expressions are compared to previous results and to those obtained through the numerical solution of the Boltzmann equation. It is numerically shown that our method yields very accurate results for small velocities of the rescaled distribution. We finally discuss the ambiguities inherent to a linear approximation method in $a_2$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0302140

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zbMATH Keywords

Boltzmann equationpolynomial expansioninelastic hard spheres

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of gases (82D05) Kinetic theory of gases in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B40) Granularity (74E20)

Cites Work

• Kinetic theory of simple granular shear flows of smooth hard spheres
• Hydrodynamic equations for rapid flows of smooth inelastic spheres, to Burnett order

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