2000/08/29 by James F. Lutsko · 5 citations
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Granular flow and fluidized beds #Material Dynamics and Properties #Soil and Unsaturated Flow #cond-mat.soft #cond-mat.stat-mech
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreve.63.061211
29 pages, 11 figures Revision corrects formatting of the figures
arxiv created 2000/08/29 · openalex publication_date 2001/05/29 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
It is proposed that the equilibrium generalized mean spherical model of fluid structure may be extended to nonequilibrium states with equation of state information used in equilibrium replaced by an exact condition on the two-body distribution function. The model is applied to the homogeneous cooling state of granular fluids, and upon comparison to molecular-dynamics simulations, is found to provide an accurate picture of the pair distribution function.