Close-packed granular clusters: hydrostatics and persistent Gaussian fluctuations
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DOI10.1007/S10035-007-0055-1zbMATH Open1200.74034arXivcond-mat/0701449OpenAlexW2160237463MaRDI QIDQ608200FDOQ608200
Authors: Baruch Meerson, Manuel Díez-Minguito, Thomas Schwager, Thorsten Pöschel 
Publication date: 25 November 2010
Published in: Granular Matter (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: Dense granular clusters often behave like macro-particles. We address this interesting phenomenon in a model system of inelastically colliding hard disks inside a circular box, driven by a thermal wall at zero gravity. Molecular dynamics simulations show a close-packed cluster of an almost circular shape, weakly fluctuating in space and isolated from the driving wall by a low-density gas. The density profile of the system agrees very well with the azimuthally symmetric solution of granular hydrostatic equations employing constitutive relations by Grossman et al., whereas the widely used Enskog-type constitutive relations show poor accuracy. We find that fluctuations of the center of mass of the system are Gaussian. This suggests an effective Langevin description in terms of a macro-particle, confined by a harmonic potential and driven by a delta-correlated noise. Surprisingly, the fluctuations persist when increasing the number of particles in the system.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0701449
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