Nontrivial velocity distributions in inelastic gases

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/35/11/103zbMATH Open1174.82338arXivcond-mat/0111044OpenAlexW3101756366MaRDI QIDQ4545255FDOQ4545255

Authors: P. L. Krapivsky, E. Ben-Naim 

Publication date: 15 August 2002

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study freely evolving and forced inelastic gases using the Boltzmann equation. We consider uniform collision rates and obtain analytical results valid for arbitrary spatial dimension d and arbitrary dissipation coefficient epsilon. In the freely evolving case, we find that the velocity distribution decays algebraically, P(v,t) ~ v^{-sigma} for sufficiently large velocities. We derive the exponent sigma(d,epsilon), which exhibits nontrivial dependence on both d and epsilon, exactly. In the forced case, the velocity distribution approaches a steady-state with a Gaussian large velocity tail.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0111044

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of gases (82D05)

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