中国物理B ›› 2018, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (8): 84501-084501.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/27/8/084501

• ELECTROMAGNETISM, OPTICS, ACOUSTICS, HEAT TRANSFER, CLASSICAL MECHANICS, AND FLUID DYNAMICS • 上一篇    下一篇

Experimental and numerical study on energy dissipation in freely cooling granular gases under microgravity

Wen-Guang Wang(王文广), Mei-Ying Hou(厚美瑛), Ke Chen(陈科), Pei-Dong Yu(虞培东), Matthias Sperl   

  1. 1 Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Physics, Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;
    2 School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;
    3 Institut für Materialphysik im Weltraum, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt, Köln 51170, Germany
  • 收稿日期:2018-04-08 修回日期:2018-04-17 出版日期:2018-08-05 发布日期:2018-08-05
  • 通讯作者: Mei-Ying Hou E-mail:mayhou@iphy.ac.cn
  • 基金资助:

    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. U1738120 and 11474326).

Experimental and numerical study on energy dissipation in freely cooling granular gases under microgravity

Wen-Guang Wang(王文广)1,2, Mei-Ying Hou(厚美瑛)1,2, Ke Chen(陈科)1,2, Pei-Dong Yu(虞培东)3, Matthias Sperl3   

  1. 1 Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Physics, Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;
    2 School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;
    3 Institut für Materialphysik im Weltraum, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt, Köln 51170, Germany
  • Received:2018-04-08 Revised:2018-04-17 Online:2018-08-05 Published:2018-08-05
  • Contact: Mei-Ying Hou E-mail:mayhou@iphy.ac.cn
  • Supported by:

    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. U1738120 and 11474326).

摘要:

Energy dissipation is one of the most important properties of granular gas, which makes its behavior different from that of molecular gas. In this work we report our investigations on the freely-cooling evolution of granular gas under microgravity in a drop tower experiment, and also conduct the molecular dynamics (MD) simulation for comparison. While our experimental and simulation results support Haff's law that the kinetic energy dissipates with time t as E(t)~(1+t/τ)-2, we modify τ by taking into account the friction dissipation during collisions, and study the effects of number density and particle size on the collision frequency. From the standard deviation of the measured velocity distributions we also verify the energy dissipation law, which is in agreement with Haff's kinetic energy dissipation.

关键词: granular gas, freely cooling, microgravity

Abstract:

Energy dissipation is one of the most important properties of granular gas, which makes its behavior different from that of molecular gas. In this work we report our investigations on the freely-cooling evolution of granular gas under microgravity in a drop tower experiment, and also conduct the molecular dynamics (MD) simulation for comparison. While our experimental and simulation results support Haff's law that the kinetic energy dissipates with time t as E(t)~(1+t/τ)-2, we modify τ by taking into account the friction dissipation during collisions, and study the effects of number density and particle size on the collision frequency. From the standard deviation of the measured velocity distributions we also verify the energy dissipation law, which is in agreement with Haff's kinetic energy dissipation.

Key words: granular gas, freely cooling, microgravity

中图分类号:  (Granular systems)

  • 45.70.-n
45.70.Mg (Granular flow: mixing, segregation and stratification)