scholarly journals Driven Granular Media and Dissipative Gases: Phase Transitions and Instabilities

1997 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 425 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. R. M. Williams

We study a simple model of a granular material or powder where the particles are excited by an external noise source and dissipate energy by inelastic collisions. Due to the inelastic collisions between particles there is an effective interaction between them. In one dimension this leads to long-range correlations between the particles in a gas phase despite the absence of long-range forces between the particles. In two dimensions the dissipative effects cause a very sharp liquid–gas phase transition at which the susceptibility has a pronounced peak. In the presence of a double-welled potential the inelasticity causes a symmetry-breaking instability where all the particles cluster into one of the wells.


1996 ◽  
Vol 463 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.R.M. Williams

ABSTRACTWe study a simple model of a granular material or powder where the particles are excited by an external noise source and dissipate energy by inelastic collisions. Due to the inelastic collisions between particles there is an effective interaction between them. In one dimension this leads to long-range correlations between the particles in a gas phase despite the absence of long-range forces between the particles. In two dimensions the dissipative effects cause a very sharp liquid-gas phase transition at which the susceptibility has a pronounced peak.



2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugues Chaté

Active matter physics is about systems in which energy is dissipated at some local level to produce work. This is a generic situation, particularly in the living world but not only. What is at stake is the understanding of the fascinating, sometimes counterintuitive, emerging phenomena observed, from collective motion in animal groups to in vitro dynamical self-organization of motor proteins and biofilaments. Dry aligning dilute active matter (DADAM) is a corner of the multidimensional, fast-growing domain of active matter that has both historical and theoretical importance for the entire field. This restrictive setting only involves self-propulsion/activity, alignment, and noise, yet unexpected collective properties can emerge from it. This review provides a personal but synthetic and coherent overview of DADAM, focusing on the collective-level phenomenology of simple active particle models representing basic classes of systems and on the solutions of the continuous hydrodynamic theories that can be derived from them. The obvious fact that orientational order is advected by the aligning active particles at play is shown to be at the root of the most striking properties of DADAM systems: ( a) direct transitions to orientational order are not observed; ( b) instead generic phase separation occurs with a coexistence phase involving inhomogeneous nonlinear structures; ( c) orientational order, which can be long range even in two dimensions, is accompanied by long-range correlations and anomalous fluctuations; ( d) defects are not point-like, topologically bound objects.



2021 ◽  
Vol 813 ◽  
pp. 136036
Author(s):  
A.M. Sirunyan ◽  
A. Tumasyan ◽  
W. Adam ◽  
F. Ambrogi ◽  
T. Bergauer ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 104 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Debankur Das ◽  
Pappu Acharya ◽  
Kabir Ramola


2021 ◽  
Vol 126 (16) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroyoshi Nakano ◽  
Yuki Minami ◽  
Shin-ichi Sasa
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1999 ◽  
Vol 07 (02) ◽  
pp. 113-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. M. DE LA FUENTE ◽  
L. MARTINEZ ◽  
J. M. AGUIRREGABIRIA ◽  
J. VEGUILLAS ◽  
M. IRIARTE

In biochemical dynamical systems during each transition between periodical behaviors, all metabolic intermediaries of the system oscillate with the same frequency but with different phase-shifts. We have studied the behavior of phase-shift records obtained from random transitions between periodic solutions of a biochemical dynamical system. The phase-shift data were analyzed by means of Hurst's rescaled range method (introduced by Mandelbrot and Wallis). The results show the existence of persistent behavior: each value of the phase-shift depends not only on the recent transitions, but also on previous ones. In this paper, the different kind of periodic solutions were determined by different small values of the control parameter. It was assessed the significance of this results through extensive Monte Carlo simulations as well as quantifying the long-range correlations. We have also applied this type of analysis on cardiac rhythms, showing a clear persistent behavior. The relationship of the results with the cellular persistence phenomena conditioned by the past, widely evidenced in experimental observations, is discussed.



2011 ◽  
Vol 182 (1) ◽  
pp. 237-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shin-ichi Tadaki


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