We present a micro-gravity experimental study of intermediate number density vibro-fluidized inelastic spheres in a rectangular container.Local velocity distributions are investigated,and are found to deviate measurab...We present a micro-gravity experimental study of intermediate number density vibro-fluidized inelastic spheres in a rectangular container.Local velocity distributions are investigated,and are found to deviate measurably from a symmetric distribution for the velocity component of the vibrating direction when dividing particles along the vibration direction into several bins.This feature does not exist in the molecular gas.We further study the hydrodynamic profiles of pressures p and temperatures T in positive and negative components,such as p+y and p-y and T+y and T-y,in accordance with the sign of velocity components of the vibrating direction.Along vibration direction,granular media are found to be not only inhomogeneous and anisotropic,but also different greatly in positive and negative components.Energy equipartition breaks down in this case.展开更多
A 3-D molecular dynamics simulation of a bi-disperse vibro-fluidized granular gas in a cyclic three-compartment cell is performed.A cluster of particles is randomly found in one of the compartments.Lohse's flux mo...A 3-D molecular dynamics simulation of a bi-disperse vibro-fluidized granular gas in a cyclic three-compartment cell is performed.A cluster of particles is randomly found in one of the compartments.Lohse's flux model is modified to incorporate inelastic particle-boundary colBsions.This model predicts that periodically there is clustering in each compartment.It is then found that if the model is further modified to incorporate Gaussian white noise,it correctly predicts the non-sequential clustering behavior confirming that there is no chaotic behavior.展开更多
基金Supported by the Knowledge Innovation Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences under Grant No KJCX2-YW-L08the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No 10720101074 and 11034010the Special Fund for Earthquake Research of China under Grant No 201208011,and CNRS,CNES Special Funds.
文摘We present a micro-gravity experimental study of intermediate number density vibro-fluidized inelastic spheres in a rectangular container.Local velocity distributions are investigated,and are found to deviate measurably from a symmetric distribution for the velocity component of the vibrating direction when dividing particles along the vibration direction into several bins.This feature does not exist in the molecular gas.We further study the hydrodynamic profiles of pressures p and temperatures T in positive and negative components,such as p+y and p-y and T+y and T-y,in accordance with the sign of velocity components of the vibrating direction.Along vibration direction,granular media are found to be not only inhomogeneous and anisotropic,but also different greatly in positive and negative components.Energy equipartition breaks down in this case.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 10720101074 and 10874209the Knowledge Innovation Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences under Grant No KJCX2-YW-L08,CSSAR and CNES.
文摘A 3-D molecular dynamics simulation of a bi-disperse vibro-fluidized granular gas in a cyclic three-compartment cell is performed.A cluster of particles is randomly found in one of the compartments.Lohse's flux model is modified to incorporate inelastic particle-boundary colBsions.This model predicts that periodically there is clustering in each compartment.It is then found that if the model is further modified to incorporate Gaussian white noise,it correctly predicts the non-sequential clustering behavior confirming that there is no chaotic behavior.
