Coarsening dynamics in a vibrofluidized compartmentalized granulas gas

Meer van der, Devaraj and Weele van der, Ko and Lohse, Detlef (2004) Coarsening dynamics in a vibrofluidized compartmentalized granulas gas. Journal of Statistical Mechanics, 04 (P004). ISSN 1742-5468

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Abstract:	Coarsening is studied in a vertically driven, initially uniformly distributed granular gas within a container divided into many connected compartments. The clustering is experimentally observed to occur in a two-stage process: first, the particles cluster in a few of the compartments. Subsequently, the clusters collapse one by one, at ever increasing timescales, until eventually only one large cluster remains. We find the same series of events in molecular dynamics simulations. To quantitatively account for the coarsening, we apply a flux model. It reveals the self-similar features of the process and allows us to calculate the mean lifetime of the competing clusters. The size of the surviving clusters is found to grow anomalously slowly as [log(t)]1/2.
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 2004 IOP Publishing
Faculty:	Science and Technology (TNW)
Research Group:	Physics of Fluids (POF)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/78156
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-5468/2004/04/P04004
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