%0 Journal Article %1 0295-5075-70-4-478 %A Meerson, B. %A Puglisi, A. %D 2005 %J Europhysics Letters (EPL) %K puglisi %N 4 %P 478-484 %T Towards a continuum theory of clustering in a freely cooling inelastic gas %U http://stacks.iop.org/0295-5075/70/478 %V 70 %X We performed molecular-dynamics simulations to investigate the clustering instability of a freely cooling dilute gas of inelastically colliding disks in a quasi–one-dimensional setting. We observe that, as the gas cools, the shear stress becomes negligibly small, and the gas flows by inertia only. Finite-time singularities, intrinsic in such a flow, are arrested only when close-packed clusters are formed. We observe that the late-time dynamics of this system are describable by the Burgers equation with vanishing viscosity, and predict the long-time coarsening behavior.

@article{0295-5075-70-4-478, abstract = {We performed molecular-dynamics simulations to investigate the clustering instability of a freely cooling dilute gas of inelastically colliding disks in a quasi\–one-dimensional setting. We observe that, as the gas cools, the shear stress becomes negligibly small, and the gas flows by inertia only. Finite-time singularities, intrinsic in such a flow, are arrested only when close-packed clusters are formed. We observe that the late-time dynamics of this system are describable by the Burgers equation with vanishing viscosity, and predict the long-time coarsening behavior. }, added-at = {2007-03-13T13:24:31.000+0100}, author = {Meerson, B. and Puglisi, A.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/25370d915bbb4f34b2bc146891285037a/andreapuglisi}, interhash = {313f394fec0fbd4229bfe727d06cf651}, intrahash = {5370d915bbb4f34b2bc146891285037a}, journal = {Europhysics Letters (EPL)}, keywords = {puglisi}, number = 4, pages = {478-484}, timestamp = {2007-03-13T13:25:09.000+0100}, title = {Towards a continuum theory of clustering in a freely cooling inelastic gas}, url = {http://stacks.iop.org/0295-5075/70/478}, volume = 70, year = 2005 }