Random Interactions
Shock Propagation in Loosley Packed Granular Systems
by Prof. R. Rajesh (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai)
Thursday, October 4, 2012
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(Asia/Kolkata)
at Colaba Campus ( A304 )
at Colaba Campus ( A304 )
Description |
Consider a collection of particles evolving in time through ballistic motion and inelastic collisions. What is the response of this system to an instantaneous input of energy in a localised region? This problem is the generalisation of the classic Taylor-Sedov problem of the spreading of energy following a nuclear explosion. In this talk, the exponents characterizing the long time behaviour of the above problem will be obtained using scaling arguments. The results will be compared with three recent experiments. |