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Gradient Monte Carlo simulations: Hard spheres in spatially varying temperature and gravitational fields

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Title Gradient Monte Carlo simulations: Hard spheres in spatially varying temperature and gravitational fields
 
Creator MEHROTRA, AS
PURI, S
KHAKHAR, DV
 
Subject EQUATION-OF-STATE
GRANULAR-MATERIALS
SEDIMENTATION PROFILES
STATISTICAL-MECHANICS
SEGREGATION
MIXTURES
GRAVITY
SYSTEM
EQUILIBRIUM
COEXISTENCE
 
Description There are many physical situations where particles experience external fields or are in a nonisothermal environment. Monte Carlo (MC) simulations can be useful to understand such experimental systems at steady state. Within this context, we formulate a general framework to study these systems via inhomogeneous MC simulations incorporating spatially varying temperature and gravitational fields. Using this approach we study granular materials consisting of hard spheres in an external field with either uniform or nonuniform temperature. We present comprehensive results from our MC simulations and compare these with theoretical results based on the Carnahan-Starling equation of state.
 
Publisher AMER PHYSICAL SOC
 
Date 2015-01-01T11:32:38Z
2015-01-01T11:32:38Z
2011
 
Type Article
 
Identifier PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 83(6)
1539-3755
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.83.061306
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/jspui/handle/100/17344
 
Language English