Inelastic collapse in two dimensions
- 1 July 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review E
- Vol. 50 (1) , R28-R31
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.50.r28
Abstract
Molecular dynamic simulations show that a two-dimensional gas of inelastic disks, started from random initial conditions, has a finite time singularity in which a group of particles spontaneously forms a straight line. The inelastic disks then collide infinitely often in a finite time along their joint line of centers. The upshot of this process is a multiparticle collision that occurs through the accumulation of an infinite sequence of binary encounters.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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