Dynamics of inelastically colliding rough spheres: Relaxation of translational and rotational energy
arXiv:cond-mat/9708093 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.56.R6275
Abstract
We study the exchange of kinetic energy between translational and rotational degrees of freedom for inelastic collisions of rough spheres. Even if equipartition holds in the initial state it is immediately destroyed by collisions. The simplest generalisation of the homogeneous cooling state allows for two temperatures, characterizing translational and rotational degrees of freedom separately. For times larger than a crossover frequency, which is determined by the Enskog frequency and the initial temperature, both energies decay algebraically like with a fixed ratio of amplitudes, different from one.
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