Shock propagation in locally driven granular systems

• Main Authors: Joy, Jilmy P., Pathak, Sudhir Narayan, Das, Dibyendu, Rajesh, R.
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Granular Materials; Continuous Injections
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83164; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/45043
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We study shock propagation in a system of initially stationary hard spheres that is driven by a continuous injection of particles at the origin. The disturbance created by the injection of energy spreads radially outward through collisions between particles. Using scaling arguments, we determine the...