Formation and evolution of density singularities in hydrodynamics of inelastic gases
arXiv:cond-mat/0610603 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.75.050301
Abstract
We use ideal hydrodynamics to investigate clustering in a gas of inelastically colliding spheres. The hydrodynamic equations exhibit a new type of finite-time density blowup, where the gas pressure remains finite. The density blowups signal formation of close-packed clusters. The blowup dynamics are universal and describable by exact analytic solutions continuable beyond the blowup time. These solutions show that dilute hydrodynamic equations yield a powerful effective description of a granular gas flow with close-packed clusters, described as finite-mass point-like singularities of the density. This description is similar in spirit to the description of shocks in ordinary ideal gas dynamics.
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