title: Unclustering transition in freely cooling wet granular matter.
abstract: The free cooling of one-dimensional wet granular matter is presented in the framework of the minimal capillary model. We demonstrate analytically and by extensive simulations that above a critical density, the clustering of wet granular matter is not monotonic in time, but undergoes a sharp unclustering transition. This precipitation of granular droplets out of the gas takes place when the granular temperature comes close to the energy scale set by the capillary interaction.
authors.affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization Bunsenstr. 10, Germany-37073 Goettingen. axel.fingerle@ds.mpg.de
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fingerle
authors.forename: S
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authors.lastname: Herminghaus