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Granular Clustering Studied in Microgravity

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Physical Science Under Microgravity: Experiments on Board the SJ-10 Recoverable Satellite

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Energy dissipation is one of the most important characteristics of granular gas, which makes its behavior different from that of molecular gas. In this chapter we first show the investigations on the freely-cooling evolution of granular gas under microgravity in a drop tower experiment, the granular segregation in a two-compartment cell, known as Maxwell’s Demon phenomenon in granular gas, is then shown, which is investigated in SJ-10 satellite. DEM simulations of both investigations are given. The simulation results on granular freely-cooling evolution support Haff’s law that the kinetic energy dissipates with time t as E(t) ~ (1 + t/τ)−2, with a modified τ, of which the friction dissipation during collisions has to be taken into account. The DEM simulation on Maxwell’s Demon with and without gravity shows that the segregation quantified by parameter is non-zero in zero gravity. However, not like the case with gravity, it does not depend on the excitation strength. The waiting time τ, in zero gravity, depends strongly on: higher the, lower the waiting time. The simulation results are confirmed by the SJ-10 satellite microgravity experiments. The major content of this chapter is adopted from our previous papers (Wang et al. Chin Phys B 26:044501, 2017 [1]; Chin Phys B 27:084501, 2018 [2]).

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Hou, M., Wang, W., Jiang, Q. (2019). Granular Clustering Studied in Microgravity. In: Hu, W., Kang, Q. (eds) Physical Science Under Microgravity: Experiments on Board the SJ-10 Recoverable Satellite. Research for Development. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1340-0_3

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