Quantitative Study of a Freely Cooling Granular Medium
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- 1 January 1997
- journal article
- Published by EDP Sciences in Journal de Physique I
- Vol. 7 (1) , 137-151
- https://doi.org/10.1051/jp1:1997130
Abstract
We present a numerical study of a two-dimensional granular medium consisting of hard inelastic disks. The evolution of the medium throughout a cooling process is monitored. Two different types of instabilities (shearing and clustering instability) are found to develop in the system. The development of these instabilities is shown to be in qualitative and quantitative agreement with the predictions of linearized hydrodynamic theoryKeywords
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