Memory effects in a gas of viscoelastic particles
Metadatos
Mostrar el registro completo del ítemEditorial
AIP Publishing
Fecha
2021-06-03Referencia bibliográfica
Fluids 33, 062005 (2021); [https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0050804]
Patrocinador
Extremadura Government GR18079,IB16087; Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades MCIU; European Regional Development Fund ERDF; Agencia Estatal de Investigación FIS2016-76359-P,FIS2017-84440-C2–2-P,MTM2017-84446-C2–2-R AEIResumen
We study a granular gas of viscoelastic particles (kinetic energy loss upon collision is a function of the particles’ relative velocities at impact)
subject to a stochastic thermostat. We show that the system displays anomalous cooling and heating rates during thermal relaxation
processes, this causing the emergence of thermal memory. In particular, a significant Mpemba effect is present, i.e., an initially hotter/cooler
granular gas can cool down/heat up faster than an in comparison cooler/hotter granular gas. Moreover, a Kovacs effect is also observed, i.e., a
nonmonotonic relaxation of the granular temperature—if the gas undergoes certain sudden temperature changes before fixing its value. Our
results show that both memory effects have distinct features, very different and eventually opposed to those reported in theory for granular
fluids under simpler collisional models. We study our system via three independent methods: approximate solution of the kinetic equation
time evolution and computer simulations (both molecular dynamics simulations and direct simulation Monte Carlo method), finding good
agreement between them.