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We investigate the effect of fragmentation on the homogeneous free cooling of inelastic hard spheres, using Boltzmann kinetic theory and Direct Monte Carlo simulations. We analyze in detail a model where dissipative collisions may subsequently lead to a break-up of the grains. With a given probability, two off-springs are then created from one of the two colliding partners, with conservation of mass, momentum and kinetic energy. We observe a scaling regime characterized by a single collisional average, that quantifies the deviations from Gaussian behaviour for the joint size and velocity distribution function. We also discuss the possibility of a catastrophe whereby the number of particles diverges in a finite time. This phenomenon appears correlated to a “shattering” transition marked by a delta singularity at vanishingly small grains for the rescaled size distribution.
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Pagonabarraga, I., Trizac, E. (2003). Kinetics of Fragmenting Freely Evolving Granular Gases. In: Pöschel, T., Brilliantov, N. (eds) Granular Gas Dynamics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 624. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39843-1_7
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