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Non-Gaussian properties (cumulants, high energy tails) of the single particle velocity distribution for homogeneous granular fluids of inelastic hard spheres or disks are studied, based on the Enskog-Boltzmann equation for the unforced and heated case. The latter is in a steady state. The non-Gaussian corrections have small effects on the cooling rate, and on the stationary temperature in the heated case, at all inelasticities. The velocity distribution in the heated steady state exhibits a high energy tail ˜exp(-A c3/2), where c is the velocity scaled by the thermal velocity and A˜ 1/ with ε the inelasticity. The results are compared with molecular dynamics simulations, as well as direct Monte Carlo simulations of the Boltzmann equation.
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Received: 3 June 1998
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van Noije, T., Ernst, M. Velocity distributions in homogeneous granular fluids: the free and the heated case. GM 1, 57–64 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s100350050009
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s100350050009