Attempted density blowup in a freely cooling dilute granular gas: Hydrodynamics versus molecular dynamics

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Puglisi, Andrea ^a   Assaf, Michael ^b   Fouxon, Itzhak ^b   Meerson, Baruch ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GASES; HYDRODYNAMICS;

DILUTE GRANULAR GAS; GAS DENSITY; HYDRODYNAMIC FIELDS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 40849145519     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.77.021305     Document Type: Article

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