Hydrodynamic singularities and clustering in a freely cooling inelastic gas

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 8, 2005, Pages

  Efrati, Efi ^a   Livne, Eli ^a   Meerson, Baruch ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING INELASTIC GAS; HYDRODYNAMIC SINGULARITIES; KNUDSEN NUMBER; RAPID GRANULAR FLOW;

COOLING; GASES; GEOPHYSICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SHEAR STRESS;

HYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 18144425164     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.088001     Document Type: Article

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