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

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

Wang Wen-Guang1, 2, Hou Mei-Ying1, 2, †, Chen Ke1, 2, Yu Pei-Dong3, Sperl Matthias3
       

(color online) (a) Evolutions of velocity distribution in one dimension with time. The number of particles is 104. The velocity distribution is standardized. (b) Standard deviation w of the normal distribution varying with time.