A two-stage approach to relaxation in billiard systems of locally confined hard spheres

Chaos

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Gaspard, Pierre ^a   Gilbert, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

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EID: 84863462049     PISSN: 10541500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3697689     Document Type: Article

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20. The result is universal in the sense that it depends only on the dimensionality of the dynamics and not on the specific geometry of the cell, which affects only the timescale and can, therefore, be eliminated by an appropriate rescaling of the time variable.