Granular temperature: Experimental analysis
- 1 August 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review E
- Vol. 52 (2) , 2072-2075
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.52.2072
Abstract
The concept of granular temperature, introduced in the kinetic theory of rapid granular flow, is discussed here from experiments on a large air blowing table. Essentially, because granular systems are dissipative, the ‘‘temperature’’ is dependent on particle mass. This leads to a lack of equipartition. Then, granular temperature cannot be defined.Keywords
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