%0 Journal Article %A Brito, Ricardo %A Renne, M. J. %A Van den Broeck, C. %T Dissipative collapse of the adiabatic piston %D 2005 %@ 0295-5075 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/50643 %X 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. %~