Increasing temperature of cooling granular gases

Granular gases—dilute systems composed of dissipatively colliding particles—exhibit anomalous dynamics and numerous surprising phenomena. Here, Brilliantov et al. show that the aggregation mechanism can induce increase of the gas temperature despite the fact that the total kinetic energy decreases....

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Main Authors: Nikolai V. Brilliantov, Arno Formella, Thorsten Pöschel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02803-7