title: Fluctuating hydrodynamics for dilute granular gases: a Monte Carlo study.
abstract: We investigate hydrodynamic noise in a dilute granular gas during the homogeneous cooling state, by means of a proper application of the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) algorithm. The DSMC includes a source of randomization which is not present in molecular dynamics (MD) for inelastic hard disks. Notwithstanding this difference, a fair quantitative agreement is found, including a violation of the fluctuation-dissipation relation for the noise amplitude of the same order observed in MD. This study suggests that deterministic collision dynamics is not an essential ingredient to reproduce, up to a good degree of approximation, hydrodynamic fluctuations in dilute granular gases.
authors.affiliation: CNR-ISC and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università Sapienza, ple A Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy.
authors.forename: Giulio
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Costantini
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Puglisi