Scaling investigation of Fermi acceleration on a dissipative bouncer model

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2008-11-01

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Prando Livorati, Andre Luis [UNESP]
Ladeira, Denis Gouvea [UNESP]
Leonel, Edson Denis [UNESP]

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Amer Physical Soc

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The phenomenon of Fermi acceleration is addressed for the problem of a classical and dissipative bouncer model, using a scaling description. The dynamics of the model, in both the complete and simplified versions, is obtained by use of a two-dimensional nonlinear mapping. The dissipation is introduced using a restitution coefficient on the periodically moving wall. Using scaling arguments, we describe the behavior of the average chaotic velocities on the model both as a function of the number of collisions with the moving wall and as a function of the time. We consider variations of the two control parameters; therefore critical exponents are obtained. We show that the formalism can be used to describe the occurrence of a transition from limited to unlimited energy growth as the restitution coefficient approaches unity. The formalism can be used to characterize the same transition in two-dimensional time-varying billiard problems.

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Physical Review E. College Pk: Amer Physical Soc, v. 78, n. 5, p. 12, 2008.