Long-time behavior of Granular Gases with impact-velocity dependent coefficient of restitution
arXiv:cond-mat/0212200 · doi:10.1016/S0378-4371(03)00206-1
Abstract
A gas of particles which collide inelastically if their impact velocity exceeds a certain value is investigated. In difference to common granular gases, cluster formation occurs only as a transient phenomenon. We calculate the decay of temperature due to inelastic collisions. In spite of the drastically reduced dissipation at low temperature the temperature surprisingly converges to zero.
12 pages, 3 figures