Leonel, Edson D.; Livorati, Andé L.P.; Cespedes, André M. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 404 (2014) C, pp. 279-284
Analytical arguments are used to describe the behavior of the average velocity in the problem of an ensemble of particles bouncing a heavy and periodically moving platform. The dynamics of the system is described by using a two-dimensional mapping for the variables’ velocity and discrete time...