Close-packed floating clusters: Granular hydrodynamics beyond the freezing point?

Meerson B, Pöschel T, Bromberg Y (2003)

Publication Language: English

Publication Status: Published

Publication Type: Journal article, Original article

Publication year: 2003

Journal

Physical Review Letters American Physical Society

Publisher: American Physical Society

Book Volume: 91

Journal Issue: 2

URI: http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.024301

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.024301

Abstract

As the kinetic equations become invalid, the constitutive relations (CRs), necessary for the closure of hydrodynamics, are not derivable from first-principles anymore. An ensemble of monodisperse, nearly elastic hard spheres in such conditions that the standard Navier-Stokes granular hydrodynamics (NSGH) breaks down becuase of large densities, not large inelasticity. This paper aims to check whether a variant of NSGH can still be used in an extreme case whether a variant of NSGH can still be used in an extreme case when the packing fraction is close to the maximum possible value, corresponding to hexagonal packing of spheres.

Authors with CRIS profile

Thorsten Pöschel Lehrstuhl für Multiscale Simulation of Particulate Systems (MSS)

Involved external institutions

Hebrew University of Jerusalem IL Israel (IL) Tel Aviv University IL Israel (IL)

How to cite

APA:

Meerson, B., Pöschel, T., & Bromberg, Y. (2003). Close-packed floating clusters: Granular hydrodynamics beyond the freezing point? Physical Review Letters, 91(2). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.024301

MLA:

Meerson, Baruch, Thorsten Pöschel, and Yaron Bromberg. "Close-packed floating clusters: Granular hydrodynamics beyond the freezing point?" Physical Review Letters 91.2 (2003).

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