Das, Subir K.; Puri, Sanjay - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 318 (2003) 1, pp. 55-62
We present results from a granular dynamics study of the nonequilibrium behavior of a freely evolving inelastic granular gas. The velocity and density fields exhibit complex pattern formation, which is reminiscent of phase-ordering systems. At early times, the density field stays approximately...