clustering and melting in a wet granular monolayer
;Ramming Philipp;Huang Kai
utilitas mathematica2017Vol. 140pp. 08003-
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philipp2017epjclustering
Abstract
We investigate experimentally the collective behavior of a wet granular monolayer under vertical vibrations. The spherical particles are partially wet such that there are short-ranged attractive interactions between adjacent particles. As the vibration strength increases, clustering, reorganizing and melting regimes are identified subsequently through a characterization with the bond-orientational order parameters and the mean kinetic energy of the particles. The melting transition is found to be a continuous process starting from the defects inside the crystal.