Granular Brownian Motor

Abstract

An asymmetric object, undergoing dissipative collisions with surrounding particles, acquires a nonzero average velocity. The latter is calculated analytically by an expansion of the Boltzmann equation and the result is compared with Monte Carlo simulations.

5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to EPL

References in corpus (2)

• Exact microscopic analysis of a thermal Brownian motor
• The Boltzmann equation for driven systems of inelastic soft spheres

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