Instabilities in the homogeneous cooling of a granular gas: A quantitative assessment of kinetic-theory predictions

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Mitrano, Peter P ^a   Dahl, Steven R ^a   Cromer, Daniel J ^a   Pacella, Michael S ^a   Hrenya, Christine M ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINETIC THEORY; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; VORTEX FLOW;

INELASTIC HARD SPHERES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; PARTICLE CLUSTERING; PARTICLE DIAMETERS; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; RESTITUTION COEFFICIENT; THEORY PREDICTIONS; UNIVERSAL FUNCTIONS;

GASES;

EID: 80053406271     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3633012     Document Type: Article

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