Large Mpemba-like effect in a gas of inelastic rough hard spheres Articles uri icon

publication date

  • June 2019

start page

  • 1

end page

  • 6

issue

  • 6

volume

  • 99

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 2470-0053

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 2470-0045

abstract

  • We report the emergence of a giant Mpemba effect in the uniformly heated gas of inelastic rough hard spheres: The initially hotter sample may cool sooner than the colder one, even when the initial temperatures differ by more than one order of magnitude. In order to understand this behavior, it suffices to consider the simplest Maxwellian approximation for the velocity distribution in a kinetic approach. The largeness of the effect stems from the fact that the rotational and translational temperatures, which obey two coupled evolution equations, are comparable. Our theoretical predictions agree very well with molecular dynamics and direct simulation Monte Carlo data.

subjects

  • Materials science and engineering

keywords

  • hard spheres; monte carlo methods; molecular dynamics