RT Journal Article T1 Mesoscopic theory of granular fluids A1 Van Noije, T. P. C. A1 Ernst, M. H. A1 Brito, Ricardo A1 García Orza, José Antonio AB Using fluctuating hydrodynamics we describe the slow buildup of long range spatial correlations in a freely evolving fluid of inelastic hard spheres. In the incompressible limit, the behavior of spatial velocity correlations (including r^(-d) behavior) is governed by vorticity fluctuations only and agrees well with two-dimensional simulations up to 50 to 100 collisions per particle. The incompressibility assumption breaks down beyond a distance that diverges in the elastic limit. PB American Physical Society SN 0031-9007 YR 1997 FD 1997-07-21 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/58516 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/58516 LA eng NO © 1997 The American Physical Society. The authors wish to thank H. J. Bussemaker, D. Frenkel, M. Hagen, and W. v. d. Water for helpful comments and discussions. T. v. N. acknowledges support of the foundation “Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM),” which is financially supported by the Dutch National Science Foundation (NWO). R. B. acknowledges support from DGICYT (Spain) No. PB94-0265. NO Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM) NO Dutch National Science Foundation (NWO) NO DGICYT (España) DS Docta Complutense RD 9 abr 2025