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This is the first introductory text in the rapidly growing field of granular gases. In contrast to molecular gases (for example, air), the particles of granular gases, such as a cloud of dust, lose part of their kinetic energy when they collide, giving rise to many exciting physical properties. The book provides a self-contained introduction to the theory of granular gases for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduates. - ;"Kinetic Theory of Granular Gases" provides an introduction to the rapidly developing theory of dissipative gas dynamics - a theory which has mainly evolved o.
Machine derived contents note: 1. Introduction -- I Mechanics of Particle Collisions -- 2. Particle collisions -- 3. Coefficients of restitution -- 4. Applications to few-particle systems -- II Granular Gases -- Velocity Distribution -- 5. Cooling granular gas -- Haff's law -- 6. Boltzmann equation -- 7. Sonine polynomials expansion of the velocity distribution function -- 8. Velocity distribution and temperature of a granular gas for the case epsilon = const. -- 9. Velocity distribution function and temperature for viscoelastic particles -- 10. High-energy tail of the velocity distribution function -- 11. Two-dimensional granular gases -- III Single-particle transport. Self-Diffusion and Brownian Motion -- 12. Diffusion and self-diffusion -- 13. Pseudo-Liouville and binary collision operators in dissipative gas dynamics -- 14. Coefficient of self-diffusion -- 15. Brownian motion in granular gases -- 16. Two-dimensional granular gases -- IV Transport Processes and Kinetic Coefficients -- 17. Granular gas as a continuum: hydrodynamic equations -- 18. Chapman-Enskog approach for non-uniform granular gases -- 19. Kinetic coefficients and velocity distribution for gases of elastic particles -- 20. Kinetic coefficients for granular gases of simplified particles -- 21. Kinetic coefficients for granular gases of viscoelastic particles -- 22. Chapman-Enskog method for self-diffusion coefficients -- 23. Two-dimensional granular gases -- V Structure Formation -- 24. Instability of the homogeneous cooling state -- 25. Structure formation for epsilon = const. -- 26. Structure formation in granular gases of viscoelastic particles -- 27. Nonlinear mechanisms for structure formation -- 28. Two-dimensional granular gases -- A. Functions of the collision integral -- B. Molecular dynamics of granular gases -- C. Solutions to the problems.
Nikolai V. Brilliantov and Thorsten Pöschel.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-324) and index.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004