Shea, Joan-Emma; Oppenheim, Irwin - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 250 (1998) 1, pp. 265-294
The Fokker–Planck equation for the translational modes of an inelastic system of Brownian particles in a non-equilibrium bath of light particles is derived from first principles of statistical mechanics. The bath and internal modes relax on a time scale that is much shorter than that of the...