Temperature inversion in granular fluids under gravity

DOI10.1016/S0378-4371(03)00028-1MaRDI QIDQ1866917zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rosa Ramírez, Rodrigo Soto

Publication date 23 April 2003

Published in Physica A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0210471

zbMATH Keywords

transport coefficientmodified Fourier's lawinelastic hard sphere model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Granular flows (76T25)

Abstract: We study, via hydrodynamic equations, the granular temperature profile of a granular fluid under gravity and subjected to energy injection from a base. It is found that there exists a turn-up in the granular temperature and that, far from the base, it increases linearly with height. We show that this phenomenon, observed previously in experiments and computer simulations, is a direct consequence of the heat flux law, different form Fourier's, in granular fluids. The positive granular temperature gradient is proportional to gravity and a transport coefficient $m{u}_0$, relating the heat flux to the density gradients, that is characteristic of granular systems. Our results provide a method to compute the value $m{u}_0$ for different restitution coefficients. The theoretical predictions are verified by means of molecular dynamics simulations, and the value of $m{u}_0$ is computed for the two dimensional inelastic hard sphere model. We provide, also, a boundary condition for the temperature field that is consistent with the modified Fourier's law.

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• Rapid granular flows down inclined planar chutes. I: Steady flows, multiple solutions and existence domains
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• Density profiles of granular gases studied by molecular dynamics and Brownian bridges
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