RT Journal Article
T1 Dissipative collapse of the adiabatic piston
A1 Brito, Ricardo
A1 Renne, M. J.
A1 Van den Broeck, C.
AB 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.
PB E D P Sciences
SN 0295-5075
YR 2005
FD 2005-04
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/50643
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/50643
LA eng
NO © EDP Sciences. The authors thank R. Kawai for useful discussions. RB thanks S. Redner for enlightening comments. RB is supported by Secretaría de Estado de Educación y Universidades (Spain) and the research project FIS2004-271. MJR thanks the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Utrecht for its hospitality.
NO Secretaría de Estado de Educación y Universidades (Spain)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 9 abr 2025