2005/03/08 by R. Brito, R Brito, M. J. Renne +2
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamic Systems and Engines #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Granular flow and fluidized beds #cond-mat.stat-mech
paper · pdf · doi:10.1209/epl/i2004-10470-4
published as Europhys. Lett., 70 (1), pp. 29-35 (2005) · 7 pages, 5 figures
openalex publication_date 2005/03/08 · arxiv created 2005/06/06 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
An adiabatic piston, separating two granular gases prepared in the same macroscopic state, is found to eventually collapse to one of the sides. This new instability is explained by a simple macroscopic theory which is furthermore in qualitative agreement with hard-disk molecular dynamics.