Talbot, J; Viot, P - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 314 (2002) 1, pp. 672-677
We study the behavior of a system of inelastic hard spheres in a gravitational field and contained in a cylinder by means of a molecular dynamics simulation with an event-driven algorithm. If energy is supplied to the system by a vibrating bottom wall, the system becomes fluidized and a...