Steady-State Properties of Driven Polydisperse Granular Mixtures

摘要

We represent a two-dimensional model of polydisperse granular mixtures with a power-law size distribution. The model consists of smooth hard disks in a rectangular box with inelastic collisions,driven by a homogeneous heat bath at zero gravity.The width of particle size distribution is characterized by the only parameter,namely,the fractal dimension D.The energy dissipation of the mixture is increased as D increases or as e decreases.Furthermore,it is found that the steady-state properties of the mixture such as the collision rate,granular temperature,kinetic pressure and velocity distribution depend sensitively on size distribution parameter D.